[A CA Guy]

I don't like the phrasing "Liberty is Overrated" stillbornagain. It is flippant and disrespectful as I read that.
But when the monsters are at the gate, we do what we must to prevent them from winning or we will have nothing left.
Terrorists are causing us to be cautious and to cover our weaknesses.
Some will feel their privacy is violated. For an innocent that is terrible, but if that process catches a bad guy before he kills a few thousand people, I will learn to live with it for a while.