It's certainly possible that this has been overblown. That seems to happen a lot these days. Even so, the question I would ask the rest of you is this:

Even if this isn't horribly bad, what GOOD can it possibly do us? How is it in the citizens' best interests to have the Legislature spending their time writing legislation like this? From this citizen's point of view, there is more reason to oppose this than there is to support it.