Posted by
Casey on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:46:46 PM
With the world so focussed on terrorist activities, and average citizens finally doing their part to report suspicious people, we are going to face some tough decisions on what we will prosecute as terrorism.
One of the few justifiable arguments against the Patriot Act is that normal crimes may become a terrorist crime due to interpretation, and US law has been trending towards making minor disturbances felonies rather than simple warnings as they were in the past. I wrote about that trend
here.
Which brings me to this case of the guy with a rare, advanced form of tuberculosis flying around the world.
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