Posted on 04/15/2008 11:21:40 AM PDT by mondoreb
New Bill in Maine Makes “Visual Sexual Aggression” a Crime
It might be 2008 in the rest of the USA, but in Maine, it’s 1984.
A new bill in the Pine Tree State would make it a crime to peer at children in public. It’s been asserted that some legislators can justify making any action a crime–as long as they add the magic words “for the children” to the mix.
This Maine bill adds proof to that assertion.
State Rep. Dawn Hill, D-York, is the head cheerleader for a bill only a fan of police state actions could love.
Define “peer,” please. Is that how it reads in the bill?
I’ll take the last question for “What are ways they’ll implant sound recorders and ticket writters in our clothes for 1000 Alex.”
We are very very close to slipping over the edge.
its amazing what we are becoming, we will pass lawa like this that leave alot open to interpretation but, yesterday i am waiting for traffic to pass to make a right on red when the car behing me lays on the horn. once the lane was clear i safely make the right on red and the guy in the car comes up beside me and tries to run me off the road. i tried to report it to the state police and local sheriffs dept and was told by both that under florida law if they do not see it thier is nothing they can do about it. so i guess we wait until this person kills someone....
It’s not the end of civilization, but you can see it from here.
slipped...??...i think we have already jumped.....
It doesn't. Just like smoking it will extend into the absurd. No Smoking laws started with airplanes and elevators. Common sense, right? What do we have now? City wide bans, bans even in outdoor areas, not at work, bans from smoking in your own home, basically, total lunacy.
It is mind boggling where this "visual aggression" BS will go.
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Under the bill, if someone is arrested for viewing children in a public place, it would be a Class D felony if the child is between 12 to 14 years old and a Class C felony if the child is under 12, according to Alexander.
Does the legislation mean that if you are just sitting somewhere and a child comes along, and you just look askance at that child, you could get busted? Even if you’re with your own child of a similar age?
No way this is enacted. It’s frivolous and unenforceable.
Dhimmocrat/Liberals know this instinctively; they want to be judged on their feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel-good intentions; nothing more. It doesn't matter whether the law is God-awful dumb.
Frightening. And the American people are letting it happen. By the time we are at a point where just about everyone has lost our freedom it will be too late.
So in Maine even people with their own children in the park who happen to glance at other children will be arrested? Perhaps parks and other gathering places will now be abandoned as people are afraid the thought crime police will come after them.
next while you are sleeping the dream police will enter your minds....(que music)
Unfortunately your words will fall on deaf ears, even on FR.
I sure hope not. I'd hate to end up my life in the woods somewhere running from the thought police. But I would if it came to that. I guess I'm old-fashioned that way.
In the movie, “Vanilla Sky”, the state had a police crime squad which busted into people’s home and prevented “pre-crime”: crime that hadn’t happened yet, but which was foreseen by a committee of mutants who had the power to see into the future.
Wasn't Vanilla Sky....'twas Minority Report.
When my niece was 13......she looked 20. Thousands of men would be felons!!!
Sadly I guess we are the minority.
I wonder how many “moderate” for-the-children type voters think this kind of legislation is just fine—until maybe one of them is picked up for just innocently looking in the wrong direction.
We’ve been the minority for awhile. I got out of my “moderate” stage years ago but too many people are just stupid.
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