Posted on 10/16/2009 9:58:23 AM PDT by TChris
Which one? I think I answered before I saw that post.
People's stupidity!
You'd like to outlaw stupidity?
Good luck with that.
Sorry, but you can NOT legislate-out stupidity or legislate-in morality.
And yet, THAT is where we find ourselves today! The madness HAS to end!
Should we just give up? Certainly not. If you don't like a law that is about to be passed, assert yourself to your State Representative or Congressman, kick them in the butt and tell them not to pass it and why.
We're sliding quickly down a long and slippery slope. The abuses of power continue to build and grow in number and in scope.
SOMEBODY had better start getting "hot under the collar" if it is to be stopped!
Delaware just bans texting for teens and new drivers. If that doesn’t apply to you, you are on your own.
I save my wrath for my Congressman and give him hell at every opportunity.
I save my wrath for my Congressman and give him hell at every opportunity.
[Delaware just bans texting for teens and new drivers. If that doesn’t apply to you, you are on your own.]
See, in Texas, the law states that you must operate your vehicle in a safe and attentive manner at all times. It is illegal to have “distractions” within the view of the driver. So, if your GF or BF strip naked within your eye sight, and you drive like an idiot because of it, you are breaking the law. If you put a TV, laptop, phone, etc... within your view, then you are breaking the law!
The Texas legislation only has a session every other year, and this year they spent that precious little time discussing and passing a law against something that is already illegal. State law requires “extra-attention” in construction and school zones, but some liberal judge said, that’s too vague, what does “extra-attention” mean. This wasn’t because the police officer said, I don’t have enough to give them a ticket, it was because the defendant’s lawyer got up there and used some mumbo-jumbo lawyer-ese to convince this judge that other people were not being prosecuted for not applying “extra-attention” so he shouldn’t be held accountable for his actions!
Just like ALL liberals, it’s not about me, it’s about everyone else! It is NEVER their fault. I am hot under the collar, because my dollars are spent on stupid things that are already illegal. My money is spent on people who aren’t smart enough to wipe their own butts, and when I complain that person stinks, I AM being hurtful and causing “harm” to the stinking idiot!!
Again, this madness HAS to stop or we will find ourselves in a very dire way: revolution? communism? socialism? civil war? We really are heading down the road to one of these locations, and NONE of them are good!
I’m really sorry about what you went through in the courts. Now you know why I got out of the legal profession entirely. Too much banging of one’s head against the wall. You don’t have to tell me Judges are idiots. The word “fair” or even “justice” just never seems to occur to any of them, it’s all touchy-feely, whatever is convenient, deal-making compromise. Sick!
The way the law is written would seem to indicate
that just revealing information, ie. address,
phone number, internet address,
would be against the law.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person sends an
electronic mail, instant message, text message, or similar
communication that references a name, domain address, phone number,
or other item of identifying information belonging to any person:
(1) without obtaining the other person’s consent;
Folks, they are herding us up to put us in a corral
Ayn Rand was right.
There is another legal term for that, it's called "exercising due diligence"! Sorry but that Judge was looking for a loophole and he found one, because the idiot legislators put it there for him.
At least in Delaware law, definitions are clearly defined, which helps.
I have two heads.
Does that count?
This is what the Left does to Rush and to other conservatives on sites that smear them and it has resulted in slander and harm to Rush...
Hi tet. Well, that ought to get rid of spam too, technically. Don’t worry, once the online advertisers get wind of this, it’ll get reversed. Money talks...and BS walks...
Always counts for you Laz. LOL
FR is unique, but different from Facebook and the rest because unless and until we all meet each other at the events, we are pretty anonymous (individually, that is) here.
Exactly! The problem is that there is ALWAYS a loophole if you look hard enough. A perfect example is the “bias rule.” This has become really popular in recent years. Since this law is affecting more of this group than that group, then the cops are biased, so we are not going to enforce this law. It is stupid, but it is happening across America.
I mean, more Mexicans are in jail for illegal immigration. That doesn’t mean the law is more stringent upon Mexicans and it doesn’t prove that the police officers are more prejudice against Mexicans; it proves that there are too many d@mn Mexican’s illegally entering our country! But, alas, this is liberal logic.
Anonymity (or lack thereof) don’t define social networking sites. That is just a choice. Many members on Facebook, and more on Bebo and MySpace, use pseudonyms like we do here.
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