That's not how that works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rjGTOA2NA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rjGTOA2NA The value of the law is not to give comfort to

That's not how that works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rjGTOA2NA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rjGTOA2NA The value of the law is not to give comfort to terrorists or evil doers, the benefit is in protecting everyone else. If those accused of the most heinous crimes are denied the benefit of law then all it takes to deny anyone that benefit is to level an accusation against them. Maybe you think that you are safe from such things because your skin color, religion, or culture distances you from the terrorist archetype of the here and now (brown, arab, islamic). But without the benefit of the law such protections are extraordinarily flimsy and can be shredded at a moment's notice. What will you do when someone accuses you of being a child rapist? Those folks surely deserve no protection of the law, right? What will you do when someone accuses you of being a communist? Or a hacker? Or a pornographer? Or a media pirate? Or a dissident? (P.S. I'm assuming I haven't fallen victim to poe's law, but I can't be sure.)