Quote:Where is that coming from? I'd have a real problem with that, but I've seen nothing even suggesting this?

 

It's an analogy not a suggestion. Forcing people to identify themselves to exercise their right to free speech is really no different than forcing them to identify themselves and their vote or forcing them to register to own a firearm or keeping a public register of what church or mosque you attend. It's a privacy issue and should be protected as free speech. The government and your neighbor has no right to know who you are when you exercise your rights. That people are for this shows how far we've come from those who lived in a society that DIDN'T permit it. We've been spoiled by what we've not experienced in our own lives that the Founding Fathers were willing to die to obtain.

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