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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—
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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.
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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.
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Am I alone in my outrage over this?
ReplyDeleteThey are thinking about voting in crimethink? Anyone who votes for that abomination should be recalled...at the end of a long rope.
ReplyDeleteLundgren surprises me. I thought he spent every bit of his time battling to stay in the cl... battling the "homosexual agenda".
ReplyDeleteDJ: There are closet authoritarians everywhere. Use this tendency to identify retards who need to be replaced before they do more damage.
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
Kristopher: I remember that event.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
If you try to curtail or eliminate the first amendment I have no option but to fall back upon the second.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a threat but MY RIGHT.
El Jefe wins
ReplyDeleteGuy's an acacia farmer.
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