news on the swedish NSA…

Wille Faler writes “Swedish blogger and civil rights activist Henrik Alexandersson has been reported for “freedom of speech” violations by the head of FRA (Swedish National Defense Radio Establishment), the government agency that is responsible for surveilling the contents, origins and destinations of all phone calls, internet traffic and text messages passing through swedish networks, regardless of suspicion or not. Alexandersson published a classified document on his blog some time ago that had been leaked to him, that proved how FRA had been conducting illegal surveillance against innocent Swedes for more than ten years. It is this offense that has landed him in trouble and deemed him a “threat to national security.” In other word, the messenger gets shot for whistleblowing about the illegal conduct of government agencies.”

Granted, I don’t live in Sweden, but the parallels are most frightening, don’t you agree?  It looks almost exactly like what’s happening in the US and other countries.  Replace FRA with NSA, make a few other substitutions and it’s your country.