Who owns you?

[ScottK]

Are you at the bottom of a giant pyramid which feeds STS entities or are you sovereign and free?

At the top?

I can tell you that I'm still a half slave, and that's only because I've been working on it for the last several years.

Freedom does not come from government - government's tendency would be to want to enslave you. No, freedom and sovereignty comes from the individual outward. No one will do it for you..