They LOVE to be offended and to lecture everyone else, but then they engage in the worst type of oppression of everyone else.
Posted on 05/06/2009 8:49:06 PM PDT by luv2ndamend
Proposal 'comes close to making it federal offense to log onto Internet'
A new proposal in Congress is threatening fines and jail time for what it calls "cyberbullying" – communications that include e-mails and text messages that "cause substantial emotional distress."
The vague generalities are included in H.R. 1966 by
California Democrat Linda Sanchez and about a dozen co-sponsors.
But it already is being condemned as unconstitutional, unrealistic and probably ineffectual.
At Wired.com, in a report labeled "Threat Level," writer David Kravets criticized the plan to demand "up to two years in prison for those whose electronic speech is meant to 'coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
If this law passes, WE will decide when we take back Washington.
(The left has no foresight.)
Doubtless the Mighty Media Monolith would be EXEMPT from this “law”.
Another instance of our government creating laws that address symptoms of problem, not the problem.
How do so many stupid f***tards manage to get elected? And if calling our elected officials stupid f***tards is bad, that so many get elected says something even worse about us.
“Won’t this outlaw MoveOn and ACORN activist alerts?”
Oh, no. The false moral equivalence and the false moral distinction will take care of that problem nicely.
They LOVE to be offended and to lecture everyone else, but then they engage in the worst type of oppression of everyone else.
Gee, this comes a shock. I never thought the tolerant ones would do something like this.
Your ISP will be blocked by Barack’s Blue Shirts who are ALREADY mining the internet for anti-BO posters.
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