[BigV]

I have a big problem with this episode.

The core of my complaint is the "crime" is thought or speech. The crime is intention. And the intention is quite a few steps removed from the action. A clear and present danger I understand. Imminent threat, I understand. But stories like this, and many others like it stretch the limits of "crime prevention" too far. This is straight out of 1984 or Minority Report.

It is *almost* understandable, the drive to strive to prevent all crime. But the effort is wrong. There aren't enough objective measures to quantify intention to keep this right-hearted wrong-headed effort from going badly wrong.

Thought is not a crime, *even* if these attempts to prosecute it as such continue. Speech is not a crime. Desire is not a crime. Maybe some quality time in the confessional is in order, but prosecuting people for thoughts and words as crimes is frightening and wrong.

Edited last sentence for greater clarity.