"DOJ Uses Grand Jury Subpoena Power To Identify Anonymous Commenters." This isn't about identifying real threats, it's about shutting down free speech. It's about maintaining the power of mass delusion.

The Government Wants Names of Online Commenters Who Trashed the Silk Road Judge

Herschel Smith comments.

My take: The leviathan doesn't need Reason's cooperation to identify true threats to federal judges. This is about shutting down free speech.

And if you want to know, here's why: Mass delusion is an important tool of oppressors because they can’t survive free expression. That’s why the First Amendment’s a target.

Political propaganda aims to mobilize the masses to move an agenda forward. That’s most effectively done when the masses are unaware of the process. It’s what “community organizers” work towards, whether they know it or not. Once the masses are mobilized to push for a cause, the propagandists’ goals can be put into law. . .

Why would anyone want to build such a culture of coercion? In a word, power. “Equality” is not the reason for what is happening with such mobs. It is the pretext for what they are doing. Like all such deceptions, its sole purpose is as a vehicle to transfer power from individuals to an increasingly centralized state. The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless.