I was reading a specific site a little while ago, because I heard on the news somewhere, probably during the Rush Limbaugh show, that “Hostile Bloggers could face Jail time.” Oh Yeah? Hostile for telling the truth on our dear leader? Hmmm…sounds kind of like the 30′s and 40′s in Nazi Germany, now doesn’t it? Well, I for one am not going to back down. This country is far more important to save, than I am to worry about jail and getting branded a “Hostile Blogger” because I do not agree with Obama or his administration. So, to continue to inform the masses as to what our erstwhile leader is doing, here is the article that I found, on the World Net Daily today…..:
WND Exclusive 1ST AMENDMENT ON TRIAL
Hostile bloggers facing fines, jail?
Proposal ‘comes close to making it federal offense to log onto Internet’
Posted: May 06, 2009
10:39 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Jail Cell
The vague generalities are included in H.R. 1966 by California Democrat Linda Sanchez and about a dozen co-sponsors.
But it already is being condemned as unconstitutional, unrealistic and probably ineffectual.
At Wired.com, in a report labeled “Threat Level,” writer David Kravets criticized the plan to demand “up to two years in prison for those whose electronic speech is meant to ‘coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress.’”
“Instead of prison, perhaps we should say gulag,” he wrote.
Such limits never would pass First Amendment muster, “unless the U.S. Constitution was altered without us knowing,” he wrote. “So Sanchez, and the 14 other lawmakers who signed on to the proposal are grandstanding to show the public they care about children and are opposed to cyberbullying.”
The plan is labeled the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act, after the 13-year-old Meier, whose suicide last year reportedly was prompted by a woman who utilized the MySpace social networking site to send the teen critical messages.
Speak out now against limits on your speech!
The defendant in the case, Lori Drew, was accused under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
“Sanchez’s bill goes way beyond cyberbullying and comes close to making it a federal offense to log onto the Internet or use the telephone,” Kravets wrote. “The methods of communication where hostile speech is banned include e-mail, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones and text messages.”
“We can’t say what we think of Sanchez’s proposal,” he said. “Doing so would clearly get us two years in solitary confinement.”
Wrote a contributor to the Wired forum page, “If passed, this legislation could be easily abused with the effect of criminalizing all criticism. You probably [couldn't] even criticize the legislation itself because it would cause Sen. Sanchez emotional distress or possibly be considered a form of intimidation.”
The bill, which has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary, states, “Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”
It states: “Cyberbullying can cause psychological harm, including depression; negatively impact academic performance, safety, and the well-being of children in school; force children to change schools; and in some cases lead to extreme violent behavior, including murder and suicide.”
I have a few friends, who as Conservative Bloggers have had their lives disrupted by people who would rather resort to violence than be rational about someone disagreeing with them. This is how I see Obama as acting. Juvenile and childish, when someone doesn’t agree with his far out and socialistic ideas. This also is how I see the liberals acting when Carrie Prejean, Miss California, when she was asked about what her feelings were about marriage. She said that her God made her tell the truth, when she said that she believed that marriage was only to be between a man and a woman. I said bravo to her, but the libs around didn’t. She has gotten in trouble……which brings us back to the childish ways of the liberals. And Obama.
Well Mr. Obama….I do not agree with anything you are doing. This country is too great and wonderful to just sit back and allow you to destroy it. So, if you must…..be your childish best. I will not stop my searching for the truth.
God Bless America, and her troops
God Bless my readers, my listeners and my viewers…..
-Robert-
Robert P. Garding
While I agree that this proposed legislation is blatantly unconstitutional, I’m not buying the notion that this is some sort of plot by the Obama administration to silence its critics. Instead, I think this is a ploy by some Dems to look like they care about children, as the article implied. I wouldn’t put anything past Obama and we need to watch him like the proverbial hawk, but we shouldn’t rush to see dirty deeds that aren’t there. That will only hurt our credibility, and our cause, in the end.
reply from Robert I agree, but, I have also seen the liberals at work for over 40 years now, and every time that they try to pass a law with “vague” language in it, it gets used for purposes that come along sometime later. It may not be Obama that does this, but mark my words, sometime in the future, some Liberal is going to look at this and say. “Hey, we can do this with this law because it isn’t specific.” I have seen it done. So that is what I am doing…….not accusing that it WILL happen, just keeping my eyes open to the possibilities.