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NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

"Bullying" - Latest excuse to attack internet freedom



Use only government approved words
  • The hand-wringing pansies of a California city want to make the posting of "psychologically harmful" words on the Internet a crime in the latest lib cause of the moment called bullying.
  • Physical bullying has always been illegal.  It is called assault.  But the Statists are attacking the 1st Amendment with the eternal rallying cry "Think of the children."


Retard Alert  -  Mayor Pro Tem Brad McGirr plans to introduce an ordinance Wednesday that would make Rancho Santa Margarita the first city in California to outlaw bullying.

The ordinance, drafted by McGirr, a civil attorney, would impose a fine on parents or guardians whose children bully other minors physically, verbally or psychologically. It specifically includes cyberbullying, such as posting "harmful messages" on social media reports the Orange County Register.

McGirr said he decided to draft the ordinance after watching a YouTube video of Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old Canadian girl who said she was bullied. She later committed suicide. A recent assault of a teenage boy by two other teenagers in Ladera Ranch also spurred McGirr to act, he said.

When he was a child he "claims" a fellow student would flick his ears, throw him against lockers, spit in his food and shoot him with a BB gun.




America - A nation of drooling, spineless retards frightened to
death of having to deal with the real world.

“It’s always been an issue that bothered me,” said McGirr, who’s running for re-election in November. “It has to start locally, and we have to send the message out there.”

The state education code addresses bullying at school. The law requires school districts to adopt anti-bullying policies and school officials to intervene when they witness bullying.

McGirr said his ordinance would help protect children off school premises and outside of school activities, allowing the Sheriff’s Department to investigate cases that don’t rise to the level of assault, battery, stalking, harassment or other criminal acts.

A conviction would bring a $100 fine for the first offense, $200 for the second and $500 thereafter. Each offense would be an infraction.

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh specializes in First Amendment and cyberspace law. He said McGirr’s ordinance could conflict with free speech rights.

“This proposal is a very bad idea, and likely unconstitutionally vague and overbroad,” said Volokh, who reviewed a copy of the proposed ordinance.

“Some things it punishes, such as threats and believable impersonation, are indeed properly punishable,” he said. “But it potentially covers a much broader range of speech as well.”

For example, Volokh said, if a 17-year-old girl breaks up with her classmate because he cheated on her and she writes about it on Facebook, that may “distress the boyfriend, or even lead him to be socially ostracized by his circle.”


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 or fine them for daring to post words online that they do not like.
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These morons are so fucking low on the evolutionary scale that they do not understand they are able to delete or block messages they don't want to look at.  God help us.

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