Don't understand this love affair with the Anti-Reg side. Never have. Never will, except as pure wish-fulfillment fantasy stuff. Which is fine - escapism is a part of super hero comics, to be sure!
Again, the Anti-Reg side, in a nutshell, is the pro vigilante side. It embraces the idea that anyone who works for the government at any level, must be a mindless goon or a jackbooted thug. In other words, anyone who acts at the behest of civil authority is a puppet or a stooge. Thus, all police, firefighters, soldiers, all members of law enforcement, etc, are mindless, amoral drones. The only "pure" path, the only "morally clean" path is to be answerable only to onesself.
In this mind set, anyone who puts on a mask and follows his OWN code - the law be damned! - is a hero. Laws? Who need 'em? Civil Rights? I will decide what rights you get - I will break and enter, confiscate evidence, use violence to get you to talk, destroy property, engage in fire fights on city streets, whenever and where-ever I choose to. Too bad if you don't like it. I am answerable to ME. Warrants? Never heard of them. Accountablity? For stooges. Training? If I feel like it. Rules of engagement? My own. Better clear the streets if I feel like cutting loose.
That is the Anti-Reg position in a nutshell. Standing up for the rights of anonymous vigilantes to put on masks, hide their identities, and do as they please. Utterly without any accountablity. Answerable to NO ONE.
In FICTION, vigilantes ... like Spiderman... or Wolverine... or the Punisher... may be cool. In real life, they would be a nightmare, harbingers of anarchy, and toxic to the whole idea of a system of laws and protections.
So can we, maybe, stop the morally righteous "posing" that goes with this Anti-Reg stuff? Please? Finally?
Shadow