NSA does not jail people, they collect information which may lead to jailing people if that information implicates them being part of a terrorist plot.
US bashing is on the high again here, at least it is transparent, something that European government culture lacks by default.
Also there are tens of millions at the south side of the Mediterranean, waving the Koran at us and cutting heads off. They are the same threat to us as the communists were, except they waved with "the red booklet of Mao", both live in failed societies and want to bring their failure to us.
Nobody should blame the US for doing something to defend itself.