Saturday, October 15, 2011

We're being flanked by RINO

Six RINOs who need to be primaried

RINO POOP



Mr. Mike Rogers (R-AL)  for himself, Mr. Peter King (R-New York) , Mr. Daniel E Lungren (R-CA), Mr. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Mr. Chip Cravaack (R-MN), and Mr.  Mo Brooks [R-AL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned, are proud to submit a bill to

Criminalize Satire of TSA


In other words, if you print a t-shirt or produce a publication with a TSA logo, the government may soon be able to arrest and prosecute you.

The language states that it would be illegal to “convey the impression” that you are representing the TSA, but this interpretation would likely be left to federal prosecutors.

In the past, satire was protected under the First Amendment, but it may soon be illegal to poke fun at the TSA or use its logo or even utter its name. Notice there is no exception in the above language for parody.


If this analysis is right, and I can't see where it wouldn't be, this is scary. The Republican caucus ought expel all six of them tomorrow. 



8 comments:

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Am I alone in my outrage over this?

BobG said...

They are thinking about voting in crimethink? Anyone who votes for that abomination should be recalled...at the end of a long rope.

D J said...

Lundgren surprises me. I thought he spent every bit of his time battling to stay in the cl... battling the "homosexual agenda".

Kristophr said...

DJ: There are closet authoritarians everywhere. Use this tendency to identify retards who need to be replaced before they do more damage.

This law will be bitchslapped out of existence immediately. People will wear anti-TSA t-shirts in airports just to troll for a lawsuit.

A similar tactic was used to slap down customs for enforcing ITAR regs on cryptology code. Someone from the EFF decided to walk through customs wearing a t-shirt with the PGP core code printed on it.

D J said...

Kristopher: I remember that event.

I also wish I were a skilled programmer so I could build up a PGP program that would run under Mac, or the present or recent editions of Windows. I won't trust ANY of the releases out since it became a commercial product due to back door issues.

El Jefe said...

If you try to curtail or eliminate the first amendment I have no option but to fall back upon the second.

This is not a threat but MY RIGHT.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

El Jefe wins

JMcD said...

Guy's an acacia farmer.

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