Oh, that's right. She's from California. Link here.
At a time when freedom of speech is already under attack like never before, a shocking new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would make it a felony to offend someone online.
A felony.
Under this new law you would not just be slapped on the wrist and have to pay a fine.
You would go to big boy prison.
While most free speech activists have been watching the recent "hate crimes" bill, this much more insidious piece of legislation has received almost no notice whatsoever.
Just take a look at what H.R. 1966 actually says.....
Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Whoa.
So if you offend someone on Facebook you could go to federal prison for two years?
Yup.
If your blog insults someone and causes them to feel bad you could go to prison for two years?
Yeppers.
If you are in a bad mood one day and you send fire off an angry tweet on Twitter that you maybe should not have you could go to prison for two years over it?
Yes indeed.
Are you starting to get the picture yet?
Talk about an attempt to chill free speech.
So if someone reads something that you have written and it makes them feel bad they can take it to the feds and have them come get you?
That is a very, very frightening thought.
The reality is that the government is increasingly trying to control even the very small details of our lives. They are even increasingly trying to control what we say and what we think.
Freedom of speech is one of the cornerstones of a free society. If we are not free to express ourselves without the fear that someone will be offended, then what freedom will we really have left?
The reality is that if we do not stand up to this, the United States of America will quickly become overrun with politically-correct "commissars" who are eager to throw anyone who disagrees with them in jail for "hate crimes" and "thought crimes".
Things are already out of control in the United Kingdom. Did you know that there are actually undercover officers in some areas of the U.K. that sit in bars and restaurants listening for anyone who might say something offensive or racist?
You may laugh, but the United States is quickly heading down that road.
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I'd like to have that job -- sitting in a bar, I mean. Listening for racists. Of course, I have a much higher threshhold as to what is racist than does crazy once-Great Britain.
Meanwhile, the situation in the USA becomes ever crazier and more fanatical in support of liberal/left ideas.
If passed, this unconstitutional proposal would work right into the hands of Harold Koh and other transnationalists, to bring enormous numbers of 'disgruntled muslim' cases into, and literally swamp, our legal system with frivolous and fraudulent cases. This atrocity would be far more damaging to our Constitution, country and citizens than Rep Snachez would have you believe.
"Sitting in bars in the UK" where ya hear that. I don't think so just another case of making the UK look bad. From everything I read here on Obama's plans for y'all the US is on a handcart to hell.
The high water mark of political correctness has been reached in the UK, and the tide is now beginning to flow the other way (although too late to avoid the eventual and inevitable 'rivers of blood')
This online article could not have been published by a major UK newspaper two or three years ago. People are now openly talking about the Moslem problem in a way previously unthinkable.
Unfortunately, although the tide is turning in the UK, you are still being inundated by a tsunami of Islamomarxism in the US.
This is the Megan Meier Cyberbullyiing act. Megan Meier was the 13 yr old who was tricked by an ex-friend's other online into beleiving the mother was actually a boy interested in her. Then turned on her saying horrible things online about a 13 year old. Megan commited suicide 3 weeks before her 14th birthday, never knowing the boy didn't exist and it was this mother causing the trouble.
story here: http://meganmeierfoundation.org/story/
that said, this bill has only just been refered to committee. Full text and info here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1966
The intent is, I believe, to stop this sort of thing.
All that said this is still a bad idea and a foot in the door. Preventing cyberbullying should be done by parents monitoring what their kids are looking at online.
If you haven't yet read this disturbing Feb. 2009 report outlining the stealth indoctrination (via disinformation and propaganda) currently being waged on America's impressionable youth via the public school system's textbook whitewashing of Islamic history, then grab yourself a doggy bag and get over to it.
http://www.unitedamericancommittee.org/Islam_Textbook_Report_v1254b.pdf
And could someone kindly direct me to the geographic location of the scrotal sack of Yamamoto's sleeping giant? I've got this new cattle prod I was hoping to try out.
Anonymous -- I think you'll find you need a defibrillator for that sleeping giant. . .
Hard cases make bad law.
Ro
Nice. I posted about this earlier today over on my blog --
Call me Paranoid
I don't believe I am alone when I say every day I can feel the noose of tyrany drawing tighter and tighter around the personal freedoms that I have enjoyed these 40+ years. I am not sure I even believe that a socialist state is the end game for the current thugocracy in power. I'm starting to believe it is totalitarianism--I sure hope not, since socialism is faster to type.
A chill of this magnitude will dry up the internet. No one will post one word for fear of losing all their rights. I know I won't be posting anything.
By the way, that picture of Padma Lakshmi on IBA offends me. Don't you have one that shows more? :)
I wouldn't be surprised to see this enacted into law.
Somehow, way too many empty-headed people think that they have the RIGHT not to be offended!
Teddy bear tyranny.
I UNDERSTAND what they are tryign to do.
They are proving that FEELINGS have little place in law.
This is bad law.
It may have other, inherently incendiary and censorial PURPOSE. Given the words and actions of this admin towards critics, no one will ever think them innocent of this.
I think we're well on our way to being offended by cartoons and it's a slippery slope from there...
The law needs to be reworded to more correctly address and reflect the reprobate criminal cyber activity for which it was supposedly drafted. The danger here is that, unless the wording of the law is changed or amended to apply strictly to the specifics of the case for which it was drafted, the anti-democratic ultra liberals and leftists will attempt to unscrupulously use the legislation to implement their own anti-American, pro-Marxist, one world agenda. The way it is currently drafted indicates that they are using a perfectly legitimate piece of proposed legislation as a springboard to implement a more sinister form of anti-democratic tyranny.
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