Wow, it is scary when intelligence organisations start to infiltrate political organisations... an even worse variant of regulatory capture.

But that was during the cold war, 40 years ago. The levels of paranoia increased after 9/11, but hardly to the pre-1989 levels.

The down votes here are interesting. I don't argue an extreme position, imho?

No one has attempted to argue against my point about active terror threats imply high voter pressure for security.

But maybe the problem is that I'm Swedish.

Traditionally, Swedes trust the state uncritically to do the right thing (I've heard the explanation that the king historically was allied with the lower classes against the nobility).

I thought I was immune to those Swedish attitudes, after e.g. seeing oligopolies (food, building, etc) keeping prices high and hurting both individuals' economy and the country's, without getting any problems from either politicians or media.

But maybe I still have naive reflexes.

Edit: I wish I hadn't gone away for a while, so I could have added this comment while people still were reading and give feedback. :-)