[csense]

If you give the government new extraordinary powers it will use them "only in necessary cases" but "necessary cases" has a way of creeping...

- Year 1: Terrorists.

- Year 2: Powerful gang leaders and drug kingpins

- Year 3: Run-of-the-mill murderers and kiddy diddlers

- Year 4: Deadbeat dads and unpaid parking tickets

- Year 5: Suspects who have encountered police and been released without being charged with a crime

Prime example: Civil forfeiture in the US. Was originally supposed to only be used on the worst of the worst drug cartel types, nowadays they'll use it to confiscate the life savings of some random black kid.

"That government governs best that governs least." You know, those limited government folks might be on to something...nah, they're all crypto grifters and crazy right wingers [/s]