G'day there ALBIE MANTON in DARWIN...

As always you speak a lot of common sense, '...anonymity in all its forms is the enemy of democracy, transparency, identification and accountability advance the public good...' et al.

Often our politically leaders claim it's best they don't acquaint the electorate with all the facts in some contentious matter(s). Alternatively they much prefer to embellish or adorn their announcement(s) with some ebullient language together with equally irrepressible syntax that's less nauseating. For fear it may agitate and perturb us, as if we're all a species of quivering cry baby's who can't be trusted with candour and corroboration from our politicians.

Thank you ALBIE, I found Darwin a delightful place, though the 'silly season' does tend to get a mite uncomfortable I found.

Hey Albie Manton in Darwin,

"Anonymity in all of its forms is the enemy of democracy; transparency, identification and accountability advance the public good. When individuals are permitted to influence political discussions and elections anonymously, whether through PACS or on blogs, democracy suffers as the public discourse inevitably becomes more shrill, more caustic, more negative, more mean-spirited. Civility in public discourse is more likely to be assured when every participant knows the real identity of every other person who is engaged in a political discussion."

As an anonymous poster, I'd like to defend my position a little:

I don't post anonymously because I want the right to freely insult and discriminate against others without any repercussion;

What I want is the right to speak freely on issues that are important to me, without having my life completely undermined by those of the left who would deliberately go out of their way to do harm to those who don't agree with them.

People these days will go to extremes, even as far as contacting employers to get people fired and all sorts of things to silence other peoples voices, and that's a drama I can do without.

I know that by posting anonymously others may not take my comments seriously, or think my comments aren't genuine, but that's a price I'm willing to pay in order to be able to speak my mind.

This is interesting...
http://www.infowars.com/soros-linked-group-racist-to-say-illegal-immigrant-or-islamic-extremist/

Linguists argue against mislabeling:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/06/illegal-immigrant-label-offensive-wrong-activists-say

Bungee jumping off the Harbour Bridge , cutting the rope and hopping onto a passing ferry is extreme sport and a Muslim exponent is extremist and an illegal passenger. Extremely illegal if she falls on the legal helmsman , the boat veers towards Mecca and sinks a tourist ship extremely fast drowning legal immigrants.

Hey Foxy,
In a way you've proved my point for me.
All these people are funded by elites who are using these activists to pursue an anti-sovereign globalist agenda.
This article relates to the people discussed in your article and also shows a connection of those people to George Soros.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/09/hawaiis-george-soros-hidden-donor-funding-illegal-immigration-blacklivesmatter-activists/