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Another guy named Joe Smith. Allahu Akbar

Another guy named Joe Smith Marine Corps reservist in Pentagon scare charged in DC-area shootings at military sites

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith U.S. House Bill Would Ban In-Car Cell Phone Use Congress bans incandescent bulbs Sweeping Gun Ban  Introduced in Congress  Peanuts Banned From Airlines Congress bans your toilet Lawn Darts Are Banned and Should Be Destroyed Congress Bans DIY Home Improvement (lol) You get the idea.  Let one kid be allergic to peanuts and some federal agency will want to ban all of us from eating them in public.   Let one kid get hurt trying to catch a Jart with his head, and "Banned in the USA!"  Let a kook walk through a Long Island commuter train and shoot defenseless passengers, and ban-ban-ban the guns!   But,  when it comes to crimes committed by guys named Joe, oh-noooooo.  Major Joe Smith screamed 'Allahu Akbar' before slaughtering 13 at Ft. Hood Joe Smith  killed two CIA employees and wounded three more at a stoplight outside of CIA headquarters in Langly, VA. Two men named Joe and Fred Smith arrested in a plot to attack a Seattle military recruiting station, reports the U.S. Justice Department and FBI. And Blah-Blah-Blah-Blah, Joe Smiths You get the point. But really.  Say you're bunkered up, waiting for the attack somewhere in Afghanistan, and your mate is ass-up on his prayer rug doing chants?  What's your confidence level?

Staying on topic ....

Shocking the First Amendment

Shocking the First Amendment

“” This month Tennessee amended an anti-harassment law to make it a crime to “communicate with another person or transmit or display an image in a manner in which there is a reasonable expectation that the image will be viewed by the victim without legitimate purpose.” The law applies to any communications including posts to social networks or personal web pages which are essentially public forums. It covers not only posts “with the malicious intent to frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” but also to anything that the poster “knows, or reasonably should know, would frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to a similarly situated person of reasonable sensibilities.” To prove a crime has been committed simply requires that someone viewing a post claim they were "frightened, intimidated or emotionally distressed by it. [Full]

I remember being in (it was Tennessee Eugene)  one day, ca. 1990, when the local hot topic of debate was a bill making the thrashing of a flag burner a misdemeanor carrying no civil liability and a $5.00 fine. The bill did not pass. For several years Blogger automatically displayed a header on all blogs that invited anyone to click "Report offensive material."  I was able to avoid being reported several times a day by ratbastard democrat.commers by using third-party code to remove the  invitation. . These examples were at the time anomalies; today they're trends.  I can't cite names, but over the past few years more than a few congressional Democrats have suggested, attempted to, or otherwise endorsed legislation that would criminalize content they deemed  offensive.  To quote Sergeant Phil Esterhaus (Hill Street Blues), "Hey, let's be careful out there. The place is teeming with ratbastard commie cork suckers."  Lock and Load.  Click Click