Of course the guy was...

Just remembered something - More than times than not law enforcement will only react to 'what has happened & what is happening' instead of 'what might happen & what hasn't happened'. So if you know something is going to happen and call the cops you better have a whole lot of proof to back it up.

Yes, mainly because Minority Report situations... You have to commit a crime to get those who can do something involved.

In other words Watch Lists don't mean squat.

No - they mean a lot and the people who could use them to prevent horrendous situations don't --- because ___________

There is no good because. If you're doing something to get on the FBI watchlist, it's because that something your doing now - is warranting you being on that list.

Someone really needs to do a mathematical evaluation of how many times their watchlist becomes violent situations -- then make a decision based on that mathematical data for how to proceed forward to protect people.