(July 4, 2016 at 2:13 am)Rhythm Wrote: On the one hand we have the prospect of shadow courts capable of creating a second class citizenry, which, imo, cuts deeper into the american ideal than our gun debate - and on the other we have the domestic proliferation of small arms to suspected terrorists. Seems like a lose-lose for us no matter how we slice it. I don't know that the threat is actually real enough to do something like that, personally, assuming that we could.
This is the conundrum in a nutshell.
The idea of someone being listed and denied rights without a hearing is offensive; and so too is the idea that we may be allowing terrorists to arm up. Even the answer I gave above, to make such a listing appealable upon discovery by the suspect, is in no way a complete answer.
I agree, for the time being, that threat is so small that listing and denying seems like an undue burden upon rights. Prophylactic law is rarely good law, so far as I can see.
I wish I had more insight to offer.
