Well, suppose I decided to be a communist, albeit one that rejects violence. Living in the United States, this would subject one to all sorts of potential problems when dealing with officialdom, even though there&#x27;s no Constitutional barrier to it, unless you are using very narrow definitions of communism, and even then one could legally amend the Constitution to get around those problems.<p>It&#x27;s not that I feel warm to communism, but that I want the liberty to adhere to an unorthodox idea should I encounter a sufficiently compelling on. If there are socioeconomic penalties for the development (not necessarily the expression of or action upon) such unorthodox beliefs, then we&#x27;re in an era or soft Orwellian thoughtfcrime.