... the men ... are charged with ... surveillance of a vulnerable
> target for terrorist purposes.
Do you mean to tell me that in some statute book, code X, chapter Y, section Z, there is an actual criminal offense specified as 'surveillance of a vulnerable target for terrorist purposes'??? With unambiguous definitions of 'surveillance', 'vulnerable', 'target', 'terrorist' and 'purposes'?
Or does it just depend on what the meaning of 'is' is?
Where will it end?
The US seems well on the way to the old Czarist model, where _everything_ was _forbidden_ unless explicitly allowed by the authorities.
cheers,
Henry