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Completely retarded. Republicans like this will ensure it will be decades before we get back in power.

You don’t have to imagine a room full of clicking cell phone cameras because the next step is to outlaw the photography of public figures “for national security”.

FYI, I keep a LiveJournal full of notable stories relating to our crumbling freedoms, if anyone is interested. http://capnsurly.livejournal.com/

Thanks,
Chaz

In addition, I propose sirens on video recorders.

Nice work, Chaz, I have to figure out a location to blog roll that. I might have to create a new section.

Sirens with flashing lights. Yes, Rick, that is probably next.

But I guarantee you that the civilians will be the only ones walking around with noisy cameras.

The cameras they are watching us on will remain silent.

It won’t get anywhere, and will die in committee. But whoever lives in new york that has that Peter T. King as a representative needs to call his office and say “what the hell are you thinking, knucklehead?”

seriously.

Clicking sound on a phone? Seems this congressman has way too much time on his hands.

the bill would criminalize anybody with a cell phone camera that does not make a clicking sound

except that it doesn’t – read the entire proposed legislation, notice there are no criminal penalties, no mentions of criminal sanctions, no mention of misdemeanor/felony/infraction, nada zip nilsky zed zero nope noway nohow nope nyet nein non

the onus is entirely on the manufacturers and sellers, there is no consumer civil or criminal penalty whatsoever in the proposed law – you can lawfully carry a cell camera that doesn’t “click”

if the law is violated, it’s a CPSC matter between the CPSC and the device manufacturer, same as selling an aspirin bottle without a safety cap

But Officer Brad, this has not even become a law yet, so who knows it will end up if it is ever passed.

It’s really a stupid bill that will not prevent the exploitation of children. If it were only that easy.

Here is Peter’s website. (Especially if you live in his district) contact him and tell him how asinine this bill is.

http://peteking.house.gov/index.shtml

This is just one more example of predator paranoia. People are so focused on strangers and predators they miss the people that do the most harm to children, the PARENTS. This stranger and predator focus we have in this country puts children at increased risk.

If a man helps a lost child he’s likely to be accused of abducting the kid with no basis in fact. This makes it less likely for upstanding citizens to get involved in helping and protecting lost kids.

Pete King it is time to stop wasting the publics time and money on things like this and concentrate on the real problems.

duane kerzic

I think this bill would be more effective if it required cell phone cameras to emit a fart-like noise every time a picture was snapped. Such a noice would certainly be noticed by a child (why, just the other dayI let one go in a bookstore and a kid in the same aisle pointed and told his mom, “Mommy he made a smelly!”) and particularly by women who, of course, never fart. Of course some of us who tend to be old and gassy would become immediate targets of female rage (“You! You just took my picture!” “Why no, ma’am, I had beans for lunch.”) but it would be worth it if one pervert was caught in the act.
Don’t you think?

Did you know your email box is full and rejecting mail!

Yeah, I just took care of it. Fucking Go Daddy.

There is a law like this in Japan. There it’s impossible to turn the click sound off on your phone. As someone who lived there I can say that it honestly wasn’t that big a deal. You can still take a picture, there’s just a little noise. It’s not really stepping on any right in my opinion. Personally I’d like to know if someone was taking a picture of me!

When the country is in dire need of economic recovery, it is a waste of time.

I hope this guy never gets elected again.

Of course he completely ignores the fact that most of stories regarding children and inappropriate photos are examples of the youth in question taking their own picture and emailing or texting to classmates. A noise is going to make a hell of a difference there.