benjamin franklin (riffing off of
blackstone):
that it is better [one hundred] guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer
rep.
dana rohrabacher (r-CA):
One person — if we let, if in order to protect the rights of one or two people, or five people or ten people, who are mistakenly abducted because their names were the same or because they went to a mosque that they didn’t know this thing was going on in the back room, if 10 of those people suffer those consequences, but in order for us to take 90 other people off the street who are intent and involved in plans that would slaughter tens of thousands of our citizens, I’m afraid that’s the price we pay in a real world.
