DISCLAIMER: The text you are about to read is a major rant.
This comes from the fact that I just caught this in one of the politic sites I take a look at now and then. I'll just give you a quote of what it said, "South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford (D) has introduced a bill that, essentially, seeks to outlaw profanity.
S.56 would prohibit the public utterance or publication of printed material containing profanity. It would also make it illegal to "exhibit or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature."
On the video game front, presumably, this might encompass the F-bombs included not only in Grand Theft Auto IV's dialogue but in Band of Brothers: Hell's Highway and various other M-rated games. Movies, books, websites, magazines, music and cable TV, of course, would also be threatened.
The proposal would make the dissemination of such profanity a felony, punishable by five years in jail or a $5,000 fine. Or both."
This is the sort of idiocy in our government. Every person who looks at that bill ALL agree its in gross violation of the first amendment on free speech. The sad thing is, we have no one to blame but ourselves for voting such moronic people into office! I'm not EVEN going to mention Bush, just uttering his name makes me want to facepalm. And its not only in government that I've lost faith in, its also people near me too. My father, a good man, though not the most practical. So he wants me to do video work for him and he says I'll get paid for doing so. So I did it, even though I was sick in a bad way at the time, I got the job done. But now he doesn't even talk to me about it and he hasn't even bothered asking me about it ever since. I mean I am all ready to go work on it but hey I need to know what he wants here! The problem is, hes so exhausted from work he just doesn't have the energy and he ends up just crashing on the couch. I have a feeling it will get done eventually but so much time will have passed will it even matter? I mean he wanted me to record baseball players during winter league to gauge how they are doing. But with all the time that is passing it seems to me that by the time it gets done there may already be changes in the way that they play! Makes me wonder if doing it even mattered.
I also look at how people these days treat each other, doesn't help being an Aspie and reading up on all the terrible things that have happened to alot of fellow Aspies. Its true I've been pretty blessed in some areas, but in others there is still the same emotional pain and the feeling of isolation (not to mention the mental trauma of a Marine Boot camp). What a generation to live in, a generation of apathy, cruelty, and thoughtlessness. I feel the ineptitude of my ability to socialize with humans, especially females. My grandma died believing I would contribute to the family gene pool. God, I feel like I am letting down everyone by not being able to meet social expectations. I know its a lie and its just a feeling but its like you have a needle in your heart and you can't get rid of it. You'll always feel it there whenever you think about it.
Agh, I think I will just end this rant and say, " We as a people are truly &*^*%!"
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. - Thomas Hobbes
15 Jan 2009, 11:55 am
