In his brilliant and well-circulated essay, Common Sense, Revolutionary Founding Father Thomas Paine wrote, “government at its best (i.e. when it is doing everything right and nothing wrong), is a necessary evil.”
In other words if like me, you view government from the Thomas Paine school of thought, then governments - all governments - are inherently evil. This means that government is never your friend and only your ally when its own evil objectives benefit from the alliance.
Couple this characterization of government with the growing paranoia being displayed by numerous governments around the world, and what you get is a very chilling image of the future. I for one find it to be very frightening, indeed!