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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]brett_jv
(1,245 posts)In the sense that, despite all the so-called 'spying', AND the fact that the authorities were 'pointed' at one of them by a foreign intel service, the LAW was such that they were PROTECTED ... they couldn't just lock 'em up with actual, real 'probable cause'. That tells me that our 'Rights' are still very much 'in place'.
Had the bombing NOT happened, because the older brother was sitting in jail right now, entirely based on 'warnings' from Russia and from the government snooping on his internet and cellphone communications (w/o a warrant), then there'd probably be DU members with 'Free T*arnaev!' signatures, and rightly so in that case. But the fact that he WASN'T arrested and held tells us all that our 'rights' are still well in place.