Posted on 01/14/2009 10:32:57 PM PST by Lorianne
"It looks like in an act that defies common sense, a bill has been introduced in the South Carolina State Senate that seeks to outlaw the use of profanity. According to the bill it would become a felony (punishable by a fine up to $5000 or up to 5 years in prison) to "publish orally or in writing, exhibit, or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature". I'm not sure if "in writing" could be applied to the internet, but in any event this is scary stuff."
The favorite doctrine of the left...
How about HB-94 in New Hampshire? That bill will require tachometers on motorcycles.
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People are becoming rude and disrespectful but the government can’t solve this problem ... There are other solutions. These are the sponsors, see it was bipartisan.
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/members/bios/0606818109.html
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/members/bios/1024999877.html
Ping!
Actually, if Mamas all over this country start demanding better behavior from their kids, this will slow down. I have expectations for my kids' language in my house. I utter a curse word every now and then, but didn't do so in front of the kids when they were growing up. I don't allow the 'F' word, nor do I allow G-D, to be uttered by my kids, or their friends, and they know it, because they never heard me use those words either.
Wow, public stupidity is more troubling than public profanity
Wow, not a single party affiliation to be found.
Any surprise it’s a big (D)? Go figure Slashdot would leave it out, since the site is teeming with sniveling anti-property socialists eager to surrender their and everyone else’s paycheck and individual freedoms so long as they get government Wi-Fi and can copy anyone else’s software.
Laws like this proposed one have already been shot down, repeatedly, in court, on 1st Amendment grounds. If passed, it would not survive its first legal challenge.
The 1st Amendment has already been applied to the states as well as the Congress.
I would think they are looking at the money from fines to solve their budget problems. And the way people talk these days, they may be on to something.
NC has laws about public profanity. It is a shame we need laws for good manners.
The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice hitherto little known in our American Army is growing into fashion. He hopes that the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it and that both they and the men will reflect that we can little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly. Added to this it is a vice so mean and low without any temptation that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
(Signed,) George Washington
For me I applaud him/her for at least trying. As a father of 4 (3 girls and 1 boy), and as a season ticket holder for the Washington Redskins, I sell the tickets each year or get ready for a fight as the 1st Amendment classless speech folks use every word imaginable to discuss the game or my two older daughters.
Call me a prude, but if your vocabulary is that limited that the best you can come up with is “F” you, or you're “full of S”, well then perhaps a good English Lit class at your local community college would be of help.
I'm with George Washington on this one.
Added to this it is a vice so mean and low without any temptation that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
I agree. Thanks for the link.
I was taught in school (during the stone age lol) that the First Amendment pertained only to political speech without fear of government reprisal. Others would like it to mean that they can say publicly any obscene thing that comes into their head. The Founding Fathers were scholars and raised as gentlemen. I think their interpretation and meaning was a lot less "earthy".
>> For me I applaud him/her for at least trying.
Don’t kid yourself. Look behind *your* definition of profane speech, to Senator Ford’s definition.
He’s not aiming at the “F-—” and “S-—” and so forth that you and George Washington rightly consider profane and wrong.
He’s aiming at “Fag” and “N-——” and “Dimocrap”.
And he won’t stop there. Here is the bill:
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/56.htm
Note that what exactly constitutes “profane speech” IS NOT DEFINED in his bill.
This is a naked attempt to give his party (can you guess which one?) a means to attack all manner of opponents — speakers, pamphlets, INTERNET FORUMS, BLOGGERS, ...
The defintion is so vague that they could go after just about ANYONE who disagrees with them.
Preaching about the evils of homosexuality? That’s profane! You will be called into court to defend yourself! Oh, sure, you’ll probably be vindicated, but not until you have spent lots of $$$ and time.
The desired effect is to shut down political and religious free speech.
Senator Robert Ford is evil, and so are his intentions.
For a laugh, google him up and see that he’s just another black-liberation democrap legislator behaving badly because he can get away with it. I particularly liked the “it’s ok for me to park in a fire lane” trick.
Great. Now they stop playing “Dixie.”
Those anal fissures can take this bovine excrement and go to a place of never-ending torment, for all I’m concerned, the sons of women who nag incessantly.
Hey SC Legislators: Go copulate yourselves.
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