Correct in most circumstances

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

Is fear too wrong a word? We are angry about what the EU will do next without our agreement or consent? We are deeply suspicious of all the databases the government is constructing, all the supervision and all the regulation of our activities. So many laws have been enacted that we feel that we could be arrested for doing things we have done for years openly and honestly. The government is taking more and more of our money in local and national taxes and spending them for us.

Perhaps fear of government is a little strong, but we have surely reached the point of anxiety?

Does the government fear us? Certainly, in the way they cover up and try to spin their way to a different position. The Blogsphere has brought to light things they have tried to conceal. Democracy and freedom cannot prevail while knowledge is withheld. Let's make things more open, stop them going back on the freedom of information act, holding inquests in private, having private investigations into government behaviour.