I understand, Joe. You know our local newspaper has online blogs and forums now. It is quite easy to assume a new or multiple identities. People get kicked off and then come back the next day with a new moniker, but you can always tell who they are by their writing style.

During the past year, there have been three incidents in this area that have created huge attention on these forums, and there has been much suspicion that they are being not only watched by law enforcement, but that law enforcement officers are actually some of the participants.

One of these was the murder of Cheryl Dunlap by a serial killer. The local LE was very, very unhappy about the huge number of posts about it and made that known. The second issue had to do with a young woman who the local police had used as a confidential informant and she was killed by thugs she was supposed to try to sell drugs to. The third and most recent was a local sheriff who ran into a woman's car and got off basically scot-free. All of these generated huge numbers of online conversation and no one doubts that if the police could shut them down, they would.

"I believe very deeply that compassion is the route not only for the evolution of the full human being, but for the very survival of the human race." —The Dalai Lama