Apparently, guilt by association is alive and well. You can easily become an “enemy” if you have the wrong friends. Big Brother is back, if he ever left. Many warned that we have no real online privacy especially with the Obama Administration threatening to monitor, and, when think necessary, shut down the Internet. This paranoia and blow against freedom is being fed by what political scientist Michael Brenner calls a “phony war,” writing that, “warnings are sounding about the growing menace to the US homeland from homegrown terrorism. A recent Congressional Research Service purporting to quantify that increased risk has created a stir. All this angst needs to be placed in dispassionate perspective. America stills lives in an acutely anxious post-9/11 state.” Full article.