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Blackstone's formulation is one of the most important parts of English and American common law. At the point where it becomes acceptable and legal to knowingly murder innocent people in order to punish the guilty, all legitimacy is forfeit.

This, of course, has already happened.

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If only our enemies operated on the same "presumption of innocence" as we (the US) claim to.

We must act better than our enemies lest we become the enemy.

If you operate under the same principles as your enemy, then you're no better than them.

And also: what do you think the chance is that the enemy might decide to operate under this presumption of innocence is the US doesn't?

Do you want this spiral to go up or down?

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