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Since when do people get jail time for profanity? If this was the case, I'd be on death row.

It's not illegal, but it's very annoying. To me, it is like those people who pull up alongside you with those horrible loud stereos playing horrid music and have their windows rolled down .. its their right to free speech. Or ugly old men who parade naked in the parks, because it is their right to free speech. Or people who stand at an open window and shout beligerant curses for you and your family to hear, because it is their right to free speech.

Forcing people to listen to your stereo music is unreasonable. Nobody takes their children to the park to subject them to the view of a fat, ugly, naked old men. Thats unreasonable. And if you want to cuss, don't force me to listen to it. I don't think children should be FORCED to listen to a filthy mouth. It's unreasonable.

I'm sorry .. but your rights end where mine begin.

I agree. I am about President Bush’s age and I have never said a 4 letter word. My high school English teacher use to tell us that was one way to show your intelligence because you could not think of any other words. My parents never used words like that either and my mom was nearly 103 when she died in January. Now, that is all you hear in some comedy shows. I turn them off. I was not brought up using that language and I will not listen to it.

When deciding what decision to make often we make a list of pros and cons.

The cons in your post seem to be that YOU are occasionally offended by some actions of other “free” American citizens. You seem to be offended because some free citizens use profanity, play loud music in their cars , or wear something you don’t like. By the way those things don’t offend me as I am not uptight, don’t care what others do, and usually just ignore those things as I am thinking about my own problems. So you want to give evil,incompetent, government burocrats immense powers to crack down on citizens including you and your family because you get offended by some one else’s behavior. So just one of the cons is that the whole country gets turned into a police state so that you couldn’t possibly be offended.

The thing is these government burocrats will take those new powers and crack down on people when and how they want to not how you want them to or to keep you from being offended.

Those things offend you but different things offend other people. So if we give the government power to crack down on people for every possible thing that could offend someone then we would have a police state.

Turning the whole country into a police state because you are offended seems to be extreme, the wrong thing to do, against freedom and will turn the U.S.A on the road to being the Soviet Union.

Just like i don’t have a right to tell you how to live your life , you don’t have a right to tell me how to live mine. you don’t have a right to not be offended. The Only laws on the books should be those that protect rights like the right to life, right to free speech, to own property, protect your life, protect you from PHYSICAL harm, protect you from force , and protect your property and patents.