beyond even the cold-war levels of paranoia and state snooping all round.

Anyone who still believes that the "War on Terror" is anything other than a convenient excuse for the governments of once 'free' states to engage in a stranglehold over an increasingly empowered (I hate having to use that word) and globally aware populace is living in cloud cuckoo land.

This decade will be remembered in future histories as the beginning of the second Dark Ages.

<Insert preferred deity> help us all.