First let me say I agree that mass surveillance is wrong and even if it did help, I wouldn&#x27;t support it. But, the attitude that our side tends to have towards people who believe surveillance is worthwhile is not helpful. Responses like this are not constructive:<p>&gt; So I guess the time to politicize these attacks has come already. Pity.<p>Believe it or not the people pushing for surveillance are not villains out of a movie or TV show. They see a tragedy like Paris and they really believe that more surveillance would help prevent these kinds of things in the future. They may be misguided and wrong from our perspective, but that doesn&#x27;t make them evil.<p>When it comes to political issues it&#x27;s very helpful if you can avoid reducing your opponents to caricatures. Usually they are motivated by the same thing you are; they want to fix a problem. It&#x27;s just they disagree about the solution, or sometimes even what the problem is.<p>And either way complaining about people you disagree with &quot;politicizing&quot; a tragedy is absurd. Immediately after the tragedy is exactly the time we should be taking steps to prevent it in the future.