I woke up this morning on a rainy Syttende Mai here in Norway--my first experience with Norway's National Day, their equivalent to our Fourth of July. And this was one of the headlines I read at Yahoo!, when I logged in to check my email: "Europeans Embrace Stepped-Up Surveillance" (link
here.)
To say this is absolute nonsense would be an understatement. I've friends all over western Europe and they are all pretty much horrified about this whole thing. What this story says is "Well, the Europeans don't mind it, so why do you?". I can't believe (or maybe I can) that the propaganda is becoming so obvious.