But I also understand that most if not all of these anti-terror measures have been in place for some time. Sarkozy is not responsible for all of them, and when you are talking about groups like the GIA, which we were dealing with not too long ago and which were killing french citizens whenever they could, it's not like dealing with psg supporters, whose groups are incidentally, if I remember my reading correctly, also infiltrated.
In other words, the massacres in the 1990's weren't being perpetrated, as in 1961, by French authorities... Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
The usual fallacy in these cases (as in the US or UK)is to shift the moral question to the individual, as in "If you knew this guy could tell you who was going to blow up a hundred people, what would you do to make him talk?" - which neatly evades the responsibility of public authorities and the centuries-long evolution of laws and conventions restraining the power of the state. And anyway, how often is really efficient police work in this situation?
We saw how well that turned out in Algeria... When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
