Quote:I agree you can't just detain people off the street for suspicion. That's not Constitutional.


 

Instead, you apply stronger penalties after the fact. You make their actions cost more than they are willing to pay. If they are willing to pay with their lives, you have make the penalty even greater.


 

In the case of an Islamic jihadist don't just kill/execute the terrorist, burn down his favorite mosque and bury him under a Cross or Star of David in a coffin full of pigs blood. A non-Islamic terrorist will have a different weaknesses in his background, maybe you just burn down his favorite bowling alley. For an eco-terrorist kill ten elephants and let the eco-freaks who want to follow in his footsteps know they will be responsible for another ten elephants being killed.


 

If that doesn't stop every future mass murderer, it will stop some. At the very least it will create a huge incentive for friends, gang members, or co-worshipers to stop him before a proxy for their favorite cause is destroyed.

 

You really think burning down a Mosque is Constitutional?   You really think it's wise to kill 10 elephants to punish an eco-terrorist? 

 

In Israel, they bulldoze houses and make the families of terrorists homeless.   From watching what's happening there, doing that sort of thing doesn't seem to have much of an effect, except for making people hate the government even more. 

 

What about Dylan Roof?   If he belonged to a church, would you burn down the church?  

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