"The Balancing Act"

For this weeks assignment, everyone that posted, focused mostly on the 60 people that had been taken into custody because of terrorism acts. I like how Kellie talked about the question of if we had the right to detain those 60 people, then explained how there needs to be probable cause and there needs to be some correlation or connection between the suspect and the events that occured in order to detain them.

Another good point that Kellie brought up was how we mistake innocent people for being terrorists, or being involved in terrorist acts just simply based on their ethnicity. She talks about a white American being capable of commiting the same crime. This is true, yet we would never suspect them of such an act simply because they are American.

I liked the quote that Chris put in, "you detain captured enemies not becuse they've committed a crime, but to remove them from the battle field." I think this statement is probably very true. The more enemies you have detained, then the less you have to worry about on the battle field. It creates less of a threat, and it gives the government more of a chance to pry answers out of the detained enemies.