Just a quick note to tell you all about a cool site I found - http://www.thebigwordproject.com
I just redefined the word ‘liberty’ and pointed it to http://www.ronpaul2008.com
Enjoy!
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Redefining Liberty
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Sen. John Kerry proposes ban on internet images of dog fighting
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Ok, I’m starting to think that a separate section for ridiculous, redundant legislation might be in the immediate future of this blog. I came across a press release today from the office of Senator John Kerry. It seems that as a reaction to the recent indictment of Michael Vick on charges of running an illegal dog fighting operation, Senator Kerry wants to make it illegal to transmit images over the internet that depict dog fighting. Yay! for restrictions on the internet AND on free speech! Senator Kerry gets a two-for-one on this one! Senator Kerry has succeeded in protecting the unwashed masses from themselves again (because we are all too dumb to realize that dog fighting is bad).
Perhaps Senator Kerry simply isn’t aware of the fact that dog fighting is already illegal in all 50 states, and that there is already a federal law in place that bans the interstate transport of any animals used in a “fighting venture”. Sounds like the existing laws on the matter pretty much have it covered, right? I guess none of those facts are of any importance when you are pandering to your audience for a little publicity!
Seriously, how can anyone in their right mind think that this is a good idea? There is no question the practice of dog fighting for sport is completely repugnant, but Senator Kerry’s assault on our civil liberties in this case is completely over the top - let’s just keep punching more holes in the first amendment, shall we?. Perhaps the honorable senator from Massachusetts would care to explain exactly how he expects that people who are are breaking the law by promoting dog fights will somehow be magically transformed into law-biding citizens - if they are breaking the law to promote the fights, why would they respect a law preventing them from posting pictures of the fights on the internet? The logic of most politicians when it comes to issues like this simply makes my brain hurt.
You can see Senator Kerry’s press release in it’s full brilliance here:
http://kerry.senate.gov/cfm/record.cfm?id=279464