I’M GETTING HAMMERED…

…on TIA. I’ll make a longer response later (after I do some thinking), but here’s a quick one:
It seems reasonable to me that the government create plans and test tools to do things that are unlikely to be done, both as planning exercises and to have a stock of contingency plans. When I read about the outrage over the fact that the government has plans to, for example, invade the UK, I tend to cut them some slack because I think that planning for unlikely alternatives is a good thing.
But there are limits.
Planning for a roundup and incarceration of all Muslim-Americans would itself be an outrageous act, regardless of whether it was ever seriously considered as a policy. Making the plan itself crosses a bright line.
Does TIA hit that threshold?? I didn’t think so. A lot of people do. I’m weighing the issue, and will make more comments later.

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