Source unknown, on the U.S. Govt's justification for the end of jurisprudence:
"The justification for all of this is that after 9/11 this is what it takes to keep us safe. Never mind that terrorism has been around forever and we have faced far greater threats- like the Soviet Union, with enough nuclear weapons to destroy this planet many times over, whose leader banged his shoe, and said he would bury us. That was a threat. German submarines lying off our coast and sinking our ships. That was a threat. A rebel army capable of destroying Washington encamped within fifteen miles of the capital. That was a threat. And none of those grave threats caused us to jettison our most basic idea of justice: that we do not use coercion to get a confession. for that you have to go back to the witchcraft tirals in Salem, or to England and the infamous trason prosecutions, or to the Spanish Inquisition."
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