13 years of propaganda and the ever encroachment of tyrannical oppression intended to limit freedom and control every-freaking-thing.
13 years and it seems like just yesterday.
"I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.". Étienne de La Boétie