A clarification

I would like to make it entirely clear that my post last monday headed Orbital Mind Control Lasers was meant as a joke, and that the linked-to article is also intended either as humour or else is a hoax. I do not in any way believe that the government is beaming thoughts into people's brains or using secret technology to read minds and control behaviours. Furthermore, I am making this statement entirely of my own free will and have not been subjected to any coercion. Nor is this post being written by a replicant.