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Proposed Legislation Is Mooninite Fallout
theantipop writes "Ars Technica has a story about the Terrorist Hoax Improvements Act, a bill introduced recently by the Senate. The bill aims to 'amend the federal criminal code to include a number of new clauses meant to up the ante on wasting government resources. The amendments include extensions to the prohibitions on the spread of false information and mailing threats, increases to maximum prison terms, and allowances for civil suits so that local and federal governments can attempt to recoup expenses related to an incident.' This is undoubtedly a reaction to the Great Mooninite Scare of 2007."
Congress has just passed a bill making it illegal to make government officials look like idiots. Government officials were unavailable for comment, having been immediately arrested upon passage of the bill. This has started talk of a bill to make "making stupid things illegal" illegal, but it is unknown whether anyone is now left to vote on the bill, or, possibly more to the point, who will argue incessantly over whether the bill is self-contradictory or not.
I'm giving this act the finger, AS HARD AS I CAN.
We figured out a long time ago that it's easier to elect seven judges than to elect 132 legislators.
"prohibitions on the spread of false information...."
I smell a veto coming!
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
No. In the case of WMD's in Iraq, spreading false information was the government's job. THey just don't want any competition.
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False information? It looks like all the information on DHMO.org is true.
I think of it another way. Captain Kirk once said, Alcohol is the cause of, and solution to, most of life's problems.
Government is the cause of all of life's problems, but have legislation preventing the solutions from being released to the general public.
Nonsense! The war in Iraq was launched to establish freedom for the Iraqis, not to find weapons of mass destruction, which obviously weren't there. Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was threatening America with them, and wouldn't let the inspectors in. Iraq destroyed all of the weapons before the war, after shipping them to Syria and Iran, to make us look bad. We then found the weapons when we invaded.
At least, that's what I'm told by the good people at Fox News. By the way -- why do you hate America?
When was the last time you ran anywhere? I mean with your own legs, not by pressing 'X'?
What sound do people on rollercoasters make? Hint: it's not Xbox 360.