There are many who think no government can do anything right, from building roads to managing health care. They say, "Private enterprise can do things cheaper and better than government can."
However, some of these same people think the government is always right when it comes to war or crime. "The president knows more than we do about …" The people who warned the president that wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would be difficult and nearly intractable seemed to have known more than the president.
"Everybody knows they are guilty." Many authors have made a bundle on novels about falsely accused suspects. At least one organization has freed prisoners falsely accused of capital crimes. Now we have the government as being very competent to know who a terrorist is. Worse yet, many accused of terrorism or being suspected of being a likely terrorist are having difficulty defending themselves. See "Too Scary to Fly, Not Scary Enough to Arrest", David Kravets, Wired, 2010-06-30.
Some of these same people who think government is incompetent think the Constitution should be "strictly interpreted." If so, then isn't putting someone on a no-fly list depriving that person of liberty "without due process of law"? (Amendment V of the U.S. Constitution)
