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So, Watcher, What are you putting across the wires that you are so concerned about the government seeing? Are you sending msg's to ragheads plotting against US Marines? Are you sending and/or receiving child porn? Do you want your hometown to be safe? Or are you more invested in making things difficult so the muzzi's can sneak in and bomb the crap out of us?

I have devoted my last 4 years to building a Internet Service Provider. I started with a friend and $5K each, which is nothing these days. With blood, sweat, many 20 hour days and late nights, missed kids concerts and even some anniversaries, financial sacrafice and hardships... I have prevailed against all odds. WE now have competitive service that can and does compete with the Telco, Cableco, and is expanding to areas not serviced by ANYONE else and won't be. But the government could easily and capriciously put me out of business without so much as a "Sorry!" because it wants to spy on people easily. And lots of disinformation spread around, to be sure. (and I mean you "you won't have to bother, just the big guys" types)

Definitely can empathize with your frustration.

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. -- C. S. Lewis

Would you knock off with the tales of sacrifice, blood sweat and tears and the rest of the malarkey! The violins are off-key and the whine doesn't compliment the cheezy comments!