> The purpose isn't to allow the arrest of everybody though. It is to allow the arrest of anybody. I expect it's possible there have been and are people who pu

> The purpose isn't to allow the arrest of everybody though. It is to allow the arrest of anybody. I expect it's possible there have been and are people who push laws with exactly that intention. But my suspicion is that for the most part, the process isn't driven by scheming tyrants behind the legislation, and that most laws are probably passed with the intention of solving a specific problem. It's only as they accumulate, as law enforcement and prosecutors learn how to push them as tools, and as courts accept and support such use that they're woven into a broader net that can catch "anybody." Confronting this is different from confronting those who proverbially "mean to rule" -- it's confronting what it means to have rule-of-law itself.