From: Elizabeth Masoner
Yeah, they really are trying to pass this garbage.
http://photography.about.com/b/2011/02/25/bill-introduced-in-florida-senate
-would-make-farm-photography-a-felony.htm
I, for one, think it's a good idea.
Someone, somewhere, in some state *NEEDS* to pass a law even stupider
than North Carolina's old law prohibiting the use of elephants to plow
cotton fields.
Never could figure that one out. The legislature had no problem with
using elephants to plow corn, soybeans or tobacco - just couldn't use
'em for cotton.
No longer on the books BTW - repealed in a wholesale housecleaning of
obsolete laws back some time in the 1970s or 1980s. I think the law
dated from the early (U.S. antebellum era) 19th century, but it might
have been nonsense passed during the roaring 20s.
Still, if their idiots can be even bigger idiots than our idiots, maybe
we'll move down in the search engine rankings whenever anyone ever
Googles "idiot", so some good will come from it. Other than that ...
The real question I have is why are they wasting their time and the
taxpayer's money on crap like this. The only good thing about it is it's
idiots down in Florida and not North Carolina idiots.
The proposed Florida law is an unenforceable violation of the First
Amendment and would end up getting thrown out the first time it's
challenged in court ... which it should be instantly.
But, it's bad form to pass crap like this and put the onus on citizens
to defend their rights from the tyranny of fools.
It's more of that "If it's not mandatory, it should be prohibited" kind
of thinking; the very kind of government interference in people's lives
they claimed they wanted to do away with.
I'm surprised the bill makes no reference to "fighting terrorism" as
justification.
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