Re: Is Condi Rice nuts or just very fucking inexperienced? Claims N. Korea are counterfeiters.

Minority Report wrote: 
Malto wrote:

           Rice defends prisoner tactics
           By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY



           In an interview with USA TODAY, Rice neither confirmed nor
disavowed the existence of secret CIA prisons abroad that The Washington
Post reported this month. She said the Bush administration's policy of
making arrests before crimes are committed benefits other nations as well as
the United States.

           "We have never fought a war like this before where ... you can't
allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them," she said.
"Because if they commit the crime, thousands of innocent people die."



That's called a "Thought Crime" in George Orwell's 1984. It's called a "Minority Report" in the more recent Speilberg flick.

Either way it goes against everything the American Constitution stands for.

It's called intent. People get arrested for intent all the time.
Intent to distribute, intent to cause bodily harm, etc.
If you are arrested for planning an attack intended to cause large scale damage or dozens of deaths, you aren't being arrested for a "thought crime".
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