it would seem to me that the legal arguments made by the defense would be appropriate if they wanted to sue the feds for neglecting their duties -- but hardly to justify "taking the law into their own hands." In other words, they are insisting that because the feds were negligent in their presumed duty to enforce privileges afforded to foreigh dignitaries (but not regular citizens), this dereliction ipso facto conferred the right to become enforcers of the law on the security team -- which would be a tough sell in any case, but even more so if the team consisted of foreigners.
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I'm surprised no one pointed this out...but
it would seem to me that the legal arguments made by the defense would be appropriate if they wanted to sue the feds for neglecting their duties -- but hardly to justify "taking the law into their own hands." In other words, they are insisting that because the feds were negligent in their presumed duty to enforce privileges afforded to foreigh dignitaries (but not regular citizens), this dereliction ipso facto conferred the right to become enforcers of the law on the security team -- which would be a tough sell in any case, but even more so if the team consisted of foreigners.