"We have to choose whether we want to exert such an extreme amount of control on our society."

Dealing with and attempting to heal what motivates individual terrorists and violent criminals
should be secondary to getting them locked away,
so that they are no longer a real or potential danger to the public...

I'm a compassionate lefty, and also some sort of libertarian,
but I am prepared to accept tighter controls on freedoms
that crazy fanatics of any and all faiths or political ideologies currently enjoy...

I consider it as a necessary pragmatic compromise for the greater societal good...