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“When the People Fear the government, there is Tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is Liberty”-Thomas Jefferson 2012 has been a tough year. We are only six months in, and already, Americans are being arrested by drones, being killed by drones, and policed by them. Congress is attempting to take the internet with CISPA, to regulate it, to criminalize it, and to governmentalize it.  At the same time, Congress is discussing giving control of the internet over to an international government, the UN. It has now graduated from conspiracy theory to fact, that there are lists of words that are tracked and used to investigate private citizens, and to delve into the personal life of everyday people, and to misconstrue them as hostile or extreme. It is now fact that the Pentagon has been and is hiring Propaganda Firms to attack the media, although most of the media has marched in lockstep behind the propaganda. “It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong” – Voltaire “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain temporal safety deserve neither” -Benjamin Franklin It is now fact that the President of the United States has “Secret kill lists” being used [...]