California city moves to criminalize Internet bullying

The Cry of Big Brother

Democrats in SoCal want to control free speech on the

Internet using the rallying cry "Think of the Children."

The People's Republic of California  -  A southern California Democrat run city aims to fight back at "bullies" by making it a crime to pick on others, in a measure that would protect not only school children but anyone up to age 25 who is targeted for "harassment".  What ever the Hell that might mean.

City leaders in Carson, a suburb of Los Angeles, are poised to become among the first municipalities in the nation to make bullying a crime by treating it as an infraction or a misdemeanor, which are offenses less serious than a felony.

Carson Mayor Jim Dear said he expects the measure could be challenged in court but said he supports it reports Reuters News.

"We're not talking about putting a 5-year-old in jail, we're talking about intervening in both the bully's life, who is a person who is hurting too, and the victim's life," Dear said.

The Democrat Party run Carson city council voted 5-0 on Tuesday to move forward with the anti-bullying ordinance, which needs to come back for a final vote on May 20. The text of the measure says it is modeled on a similar ordinance in Monona, Wisconsin.

Carson, a city of about 93,000 residents, contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for policing, and the measure would call on sheriff's deputies to enforce the ordinance. The measure defines bullying as "a willful course of conduct which involves harassment of a person(s) from kindergarten through age 25."

The measure covers physical and verbal actions, as well as so-called Internet cyberbullying.

It would require the parent of a suspected bully to attend a juvenile court hearing and hold parents partly responsible for actions of their children, Dear said.

Time in custody would not always be administered to children and young adults found to have committed bullying, and counseling and therapy would be part of the solution, he said.

But Brendan Hamme, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said the measure is too vague and does not even spell out how much jail time an offender could potentially face, although in California a misdemeanor crime can carry a maximum sentence of a year in jail.

Ross Ellis, founder and CEO of New York-based Stomp Out Bullying, said the measure appears to go too far.

"Do you want someone to go to jail if they're calling someone a name?" Ellis said.

A Nation of Retards
The pathetic, ball-less and spineless American Sheeple are frightened to death that someone might say a mean word to them on the Internet so they demand that a Fascist Big Brother put people in prison for daring to post words.
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These morons are so fucking low on the evolutionary scale that they do not understand they are able to delete messages they don't want.  God help us.