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Why not get a warrant for all people who have searched for the term "railway" in 2016 because they might be terrorists?

And then just add those people to a list of people who should be watched closely at transportation centers.

And then maybe make them wear a little orange circle on their jackets so they are easier to identify.

And then maybe put them all in a concentrated containment area so the rest of us were safe from all the would-be terrorists?

Or maybe at that point filter it down to just the orange-circles who happen to be from germany.




This is exactly the kind of alarmist hyperbole that concerns me in these conversations.


This is exactly the kind of subpoena that people have been concerned about.

Everyone who searched for "Douglas". Please. There's nothing reasonable about that.


It's a personal value judgment whether you think the camel's nose is a problem. The facts remain, however, since once the police get this list, they're going to ask for more search queries from the people on the list, because it's easier to create a defendant that way.




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