Homeland Security Shreds Constitutional Right to Anonymous Political Speech – Not to Protect Our Security – But to Monitor Dissent

by WashingtonsBlog

DHS Attacks Constitutional Right to Anonymity

Anonymous political speech has a special place in American history.
As leading economic blogger Tyler Durden points out:
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the bill of rights, and of the first amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation– and their ideas from suppression– at the hand of an intolerant society.

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