Governments have become little more that administrators for big business and they do not serve the interests of the vast majority of people they are there to supposedly serve. All the time the general populace are in a media-induced comatose anesthetic state they are docile and compliant. Most people do not want to know the reality of what is going on for fear of shaking their fragile little paradigm of an illusion of freedom to much, you can see their eyes start to glaze over when you tell inform them how it really is, you can hear their internal monologue where they are saying to themselves "this guy is some conspiracy theory nut, wish he would go away so I can go back to watching TV and not thinking about all this hard stuff". The reality is too scary for most people which once again brings me to the point of how important this place is, we are free here to speak without fear of censorship, coercion, control, punishment. Silk Road offers a genuine alternative to the corrupt systems imposed upon us that keep us enslaved and dependent upon those who are really running the show and making all the money. We have freedom of currency and the fact that they cannot control it (yet) must be scaring the crap out of them. So they will obviously try to demonize it to try to legitimize their actions against it, nothing scares a government more than the thought of not being in control.