"There are going to be fewer, but better Freepers."
Posted on 12/30/2019 1:31:40 PM PST by Jotmo
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court bench handed down a ruling Thursday approving the death penalty for people who comment on articles without reading them.
In the highly publicized case, State of Texas v. Wilbur, state authorities had found internet user Edward Wilbur guilty of posting a comment on a story linked on his Facebook page, a news story Wilbur “had clearly never read.”
While most of those convicted under Texas’ recent state law banning commenting on news stories or opinion pieces without reading them get off with a few months of community service or a stiff fine, the “severe stupidity” of Wilbur’s comment reportedly landed him a shocking sentence of execution by lethal injection.
“Mr. Wilbur commented on a news story about a minor update to Texas public schools’ science curriculum,” prosecuting attorney Hank Cassidy told reporters outside the Supreme Court building just after the controversial ruling was announced. “But it was immediately apparent he hadn’t even read the article, and barely even glanced at the headline. He left a long, rambling comment attacking Obamacare, liberals, evolution in the school system, and chem trails, among other topics.”
According to Cassidy, this led to state officials taking Wilbur in for questioning before booking him on the capital charge of commenting without reading, kicking off a long appeals process, which finally concluded with the Supreme Court’s hearing of the case in today’s historic decision.
“This will be good for America,” the prosecuting attorney said. “Finally, justice has been done.”
Now where did I put that old tagline of mine. Ah yes. Here it is.....
Jim’s quarterly FReep-a-thons are gonna last about 3 years each.
Better hire Bernie to keep the books
What is the warning about?
I didn’t read the article yet.
"There are going to be fewer, but better Freepers."
I’m toast.
5.56mm
We actually had this toilet seat cover in our basement bathroom back in the 50's. Never thought it would really come to this.
TL;DR
And I meant to use “capitol crime” instead of “capital crime”....
Oh well.
“We must pass it to find out what’s in it.”
Prima Fascia evidence of guilt!
What’s the article about? I didn’t read it.
Bwahahaha!
I would never do that thing in the title.
This is HUGH!!!!!
Only if they also use “rouge” and “trail”.
Well, then if we can post from foreign sources than that changes everything.
I would like a bunny with a pancake(&bacon) on it's head
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On this site it’s a Thanos snap...
Awesome... Don’t make them like that any more...
ROTF!
And here’s to that urban spaceman Neil Innes! Godspeed!
FR’s population just declined by 80%.
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