But that is the point. It does not happen even as down and dirty as we get around here with each other.
But I thought we could make anonymous tips and even collect information (folks who truck around the web being valuable sources for complete profiles) to impeach each other or convince management a voice could be silenced, an account killed. (Neither of those always being bad things.)
But this is private property and, contrary to the evidence strewn about the net, being banned from Free Republic will not mean the end of one's life (unless they choose to obsess about it endlessly).
It's not an actionable crime -- or it shouldn't be -- for folks to hate you or shun you or ban you from their property as long as they don't kill you or harm you in the process.
(Hurt feelings don't count. Waaaay to subjective to be actionable despite what the Trial Attorney have to say about Pain and Suffering.)
But to apply the controls and invasions of privacy proper to parents with their kids or a private individual's property are not proper to the government as a matter of course.
We are not their children. They do not own us or invite us to be here.
As you say, we're perfectly capable of calling the authorities as we see fit. What is the point of the Government's specifically encouraging folks from targeted walks to serve as Hall Monitors?
Is this really the beset idea they've got for improving the lousy performance to date of our agencies? They can't chew properly the intelligence they get now. (Probably just swallow as a rule, anyway.)
Is this a Good thing? Would you expect a child who's been properly exposed to Character Training to think so?
Does suspicion breed confidence?