[Mylo]

I don't think the two are that different. Both are groups of nut-cases who publicly proclaim their proclivity and intention to commit crimes. Either can be infiltrated, monitored, bugged, tailed, and eventually arrested (like they got those NAMBLA pervs here in San Diego planning to do some pedophilia south of the boarder).

The alternative to letting "this type of rhetoric go unchecked"; is to infringe upon our right to free speech. Curtailing our Constitutional rights under the pitiful attack of these jokers incapable of anything more than killing a few tens, hundreds, and occasionally thousands of civilians is just not an option to anyone who values our Constitution and the freedoms assured to us by our founding fathers.

[ghost of quidam]

tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thou.....

Where does it end?

I wholeheartedly agree that there should be much more pro-active and investigative terrorist crime prevention in the West, but what of the absolute hail of criticism that would come from such an effort?

Do we put FBI guys undercover into radical mosques? What would the reaction be to that, regarding constitutional rights etc., in the media and the public?