Department of Pre-Crime

There's a reason material support has become such a popular charge, a reason it's central to many of the government's most questionable cases: The laws are a prosecutor's dream. They don't require evidence of a plot or even of a desire to help terrorists. They give the government a shot at convictions traditional criminal laws could never provide. Full Story »

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Russell Imrie
2.2
by Russell Imrie - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a VERY focused item - many sources, etc. A wider picture of how this issue is part of a larger SYSTEM of a developing popular concensus would be helpful. Sure, this behavior by American power and.or government is scary but what does it mean? We need to know.

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