I don't know, we are in a knife fight and there needs to be a way to report suspicious activity. Policemen check license plates of a suspicious vehicles. Maybe citizen's should be allowed to run license plates of observed suspicious activities against terrorism databases. Bring in the people and an important alarm may go off. I hate to suggest such a thing but no doubt it will be automatic process in the future.
I thought the idea was innocuous enough and not much of even a tweak at civil liberties because no identities would be involved.
But, I respect Jim's perspective and it is certainly his turf.
Tyranny is coming to the planet at an increasing rate. I don't really want to do anything to hasten it!