There are always risks of course no matter what. But we either support the constitution or we do not. The Constitution was designed to protect the very absolute minority from mob influenced rule using the power of government with selective exceptions.
This absolute minority is one... Each and every individual as that one with rights which are always to trump the mob and government. It is important that we not dilute or deviate from this principle concept or we will be lost as a Free Republic. :)
I understand that, but if your child was run down on a bike path in NYC by a guy with links to terrorists would you be glad the government restrained itself and turned him loose? How about the Boston Marathon bombers, after the Russian government had warned us specifically about the older brother (who masterminded it)?
Leaving American citizens defenseless against these killers is ridiculous; your ideal work in a system where the government works in the interests of its citizens - and it is so obvious that our government doesn’t.
Unfortunately, if we go by the constitution, that technically means ideological exclusion of any matter is unconstitutional, and yet the Founding Fathers more than practiced that with, say, Citizen Genet especially after he attempted to spread France’s crap here in America, which essentially means that, technically, the Founding Fathers violated their own constitution.
No, what Palmer and the others did was well within the constitution. If it was within the constitution when the Founding Fathers evicted Genet, it’s the same here.