Have you been to US lately? This is not a rhetorical point. If you typed those words and I am expected to take those at face value, I have to assume that you h

Have you been to US lately? This is not a rhetorical point. If you typed those words and I am expected to take those at face value, I have to assume that you have not seen the rabid mobs calling for not allowing X to speak/present/or even be vaguely associated with a given group ( X to avoid adding a political spin to it ). Any other day, yeah, I agree.. that is absolutely how things SHOULD work. But then, we are here. It is what you get for not protecting freedom of speech enough and excusing attempts at restricting it further ( if you actually tried to stop it, you can ignore that sentence ). That said, I have a suspicion that you have been to US and know exactly what I am talking about, which means several different things ( among other that I can't really trust those tears of 'nonpartisan lecture' ), but I will let you respond first.