> A house was burned down [..] Next time it could be something that you find much less clearcut. Someone had an abortion (if you favor abortion rights), someo

> A house was burned down [..] Next time it could be something that you find much less clearcut. Someone had an abortion (if you favor abortion rights), someone bought a gun/ammunition (if you favor the second amendment), someone was just around a given location (if you favor free association and movement). The dragnet could have been over drugs (if you are against the war on drugs). I don't know what conservatives/right-wingers fear these days, but imagine its a dragnet over those things pushed by a liberal political system. And this request produced only a handful of hits, but there's nothing stopping them from getting search results that produce a hundred hits in the dragnet. When it comes to crime there are real actual slippery slopes. You can justify capital punishment with some horrible serial killer like Ted Bundy, but then that winds up with Texas killing innocent, poor, mentally handicapped people who get shitty legal representation.