MMario,

And I anxiously await the thread welcoming anon. guest posters, and thanking them for their contributions to the forum...

HOW MANY TIMES do we anon. guests have to point out how wrong/unjustifiably paranoid some of you are about anon. guests?

You have no way of knowing the identity of the guest posters exhibiting anti-social behavior, whether they use a standardized nickname or not. You have no way of knowing whether that anti-social guest is, in fact, a member posting as a guest.

You are also ignorantly attempting to equate consitutional amendments with rights of defendants in a court of law. The two are neither equatable, nor the same thing. And neither has any real bearing on the current conversation.

But BTW, the judicial system does protect the anonymity of "crime tipsters"--for good reason.