The real problem here isn't that the government is going to haul away random people, though that can certainly happen. The problem is that the situation describ

The real problem here isn't that the government is going to haul away random people, though that can certainly happen. The problem is that the situation described in the article, combined with prosecutorial discretion and plea-bargaining, creates a situation in which no one actually has constitutional rights. If the prosecutor or someone powerful doesn't like your speech, they don't censor you, they just find one of the laws you've no doubt broken and threaten to charge you. Either you stop saying the things they don't want said, or they throw the book at you. Or, it can be even more mundane, maybe they just lock you up or ruin your life and let the speech issue go unsaid, but nonetheless communicated. In a world where everyone is, in fact, a criminal, and criminals have no (or limited) rights, no one has any rights.