Even if New Jersey is a long way from downtown Raleigh, what I see on the Web suggests that DaTruthSquad's anonymity hasn't robbed him of fans, readership, authority or editorial support.

The Newark New Jersey Star Ledger editorial page said, in an editorial entitled Free speech in cyberspace, said:

"Manalapan Township officials have a bad case of King George-itis. And like George III during the American Revolution, they need a good lesson in democracy and the right of critics to re main anonymous."

Avowed Republican blogger Art Gallagher reminisced in MoreMonmouthMusings about daTruthSquad's "dreaded Baconhead of the Week award."

In what I read as amused admiration, Gallagher offered the picture at right as his illustration of the award.

No doubt my survey was incomplete, but I found exactly no one outside those sponsoring the legal action who favored forcing DaTruthSquad to give up his anonymity.

Outside the "King George-itis" crowd, his anonymity was regarded as the fundamental right that it is, intrusion upon which is an outrage.