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ELVIS
02-14-2013, 10:30 AM
A state lawmaker in Georgia is so perturbed that someone used Photoshop to put his head on a porn star's body that he now wants any kind of lewd Photoshopping to be banned. "No one has a right to make fun of anyone," he says. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57569287-71/politician-moves-to-make-vulgar-photoshopping-illegal/)

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Sometimes people don't appreciate flattery.

They are so engrossed in their own grossly skewed view of the world that their sense of humor flies into the night like a married lover late home for dinner.

How else can one explain the quite bizarre intentions of Georgia state Rep. Earnest Smith?

He clearly sees a vast importance in being Earnest.

He clearly believes that his constituents are so drawn to his Earnestness that anything that deviates it from absolute Earnestness deserves the full metal force of the law.

Which is why he wants to make lewd, coarse, filthy Photoshopping illegal and punishable with a fine of $1,000.

You see, some devious, twisted human being placed His Earnestness's head on the body of a porn star. He did this for public consumption on the blog Georgia Politics Unfiltered. The porn star has a very nice body. He is a porn star, after all. And he is not Ron Jeremy.

The human being behind this affrontery has come forward. His name is Andre Walker. It is unknown if he was moved by the boast on His Earnestness's own Web site that says he is both "accessible" and "audacious."

However, Walker told Fox News: "The first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States protects all forms of speech, not just spoken word."

His Earnestness is undeterred by this almost pornographic argument.

He fulminated to Fox News: "No one has a right to make fun of anyone. It's not a First Amendment right."
If this turns out to be true, Technically Incorrect is operating under some very strange illusions.

Smith insists that he has legislation in his mind that will put a stop to all the appallingly imaginative filthmongers who are destroying society with this awful technology.

He isn't, to the naked eye, keen to disrobe the details of this legislation, explaining to Fox News: "I don't have to tell you anything."

It seems that Smith first had the idea last year in order to protect a girl who had been subject to some form of online bullying.

The idea then was to make it a misdemeanor to cause "an unknowing person wrongfully to be identified as the person in an obscene depiction."

Might Smith be now in doubt that there exists anyone who, on seeing this Photoshopped image of him as porn legend, would consider it to be, well, real?

His, he insists, is a higher cause.

"This is about being vulgar," he told Fox News. "We're becoming a nation of vulgar people."
Some might be concerned about his use of the word "becoming." Especially to Fox News.


:elvis:

Nitro Express
02-14-2013, 10:56 AM
We are losing the concept in this country. You used to hear people say things like "This is a free country.", "It's my constitutional right.", "The first amendment protects the speech you don't like.". I think we used to have a pretty good understanding of that and now we don't. Too often I hear someone wanting to censor someone because their views or what they are doing is offensive. I think we used to get the concept if the government can shut up who you don't like they also can shut you up.

We need to stop acting like a bunch of children running to big daddy every time someone offends us.

Nitro Express
02-14-2013, 11:08 AM
Why were the Vietnam war protests allowed? Because the older generation even though they detested the hippie movement, the drugs, and the loose morals respected for the most part people's right to protest. Do you think that could happen now? As soon as a bunch of kids tried it the storm troopers would be out busting heads. As soon as Obama signed the NDAA into law Occupy Wall Street died. That killed it. Sure things like Kent State happened but for the most part the public was allowed to openly protest. Try Protesting in Washington DC today and see how long you will stay on the street.

People didn't fear the government as much back then as they do now. Sure the government could arrest you for dodging the draft but people weren't afraid of flipping it the middle finger in public. Now they fear being disappeared and even tortured if the black boots grab them.

sadaist
02-14-2013, 12:07 PM
Removing all our freedoms one by one. Look no further than Mein Bloomberg and his weekly allotment of things to ban from the people.

Nitro Express
02-14-2013, 12:11 PM
They will take as much as they think they can get away with. They view the American people as a bunch of spineless wonders. Any experienced politician will tell you what they fear most is a public that will fight back. Sheep get sheered.

Politicians are bullies. What is a bully going to do when you just roll over and give them your lunch money? It never ends until you stand up to them and give them a bloody nose.

ZahZoo
02-14-2013, 01:36 PM
I don't believe any real freedoms have been lost in the last 50 years...

Protests are still going on. The only change has been where and when they take place. Most of those restrictions aren't about preventing free speech more in keeping people safe and orderly with minimal disruption to regular life where ever a protest occurs.

This photo-shop thing won't grow legs. Flappo and similar artists are safe and fine to run a muck. It's just mainstream people with little internet debauchery experience and thin skin are getting a dose of what we've seen as shenanigans for years.

One area of interest though is what measures might be taken to somehow curb internet bullying... used to be you could call people names and crap face to face but today you can have thousands of jackasses attacking a person at will. Not sure society as a whole is ready to police that nor do I think legislation and laws can curtail it... But it's something that's going to be addressed in our lifetime. Somehow...

jhale667
02-14-2013, 01:46 PM
"No one has the right to make fun of anyone"? Dude wouldn't last 30 seconds here.

Dr. Love
02-14-2013, 03:29 PM
On one hand I think it's ridiculous, but on the other hand it would be kind of funny for flappo to be arrested the next time he comes to the US...

Guitar Shark
02-14-2013, 03:40 PM
This isn't even a proposed "US" law, this is some random member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Who cares what some weirdo state legislator thinks...

jhale667
02-14-2013, 03:40 PM
On one hand I think it's ridiculous, but on the other hand it would be kind of funny for flappo to be arrested the next time he comes to the US...

I can see the headlines... "The Trial of CuntFlappo.." :lmao:

Nickdfresh
02-14-2013, 03:42 PM
This isn't even a proposed "US" law, this is some random member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Who cares what some weirdo state legislator thinks...

Right. Does anyone really give a shit what a parochial pol thinks?

jhale667
02-14-2013, 04:57 PM
Right. Does anyone really give a shit what a parochial pol thinks?

No, but the fact this tool actually stated this stupidity publically shows he's far beyond moronic.

Dr. Love
02-14-2013, 05:51 PM
This isn't even a proposed "US" law, this is some random member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Who cares what some weirdo state legislator thinks...

so you're saying I have to lure flappo to Georgia.

Guitar Shark
02-14-2013, 06:07 PM
Yes, but only because I am intrigued as to how you might do that. What is your flappo lure?

ELVIS
02-14-2013, 06:08 PM
I don't wanna know...

LoungeMachine
02-14-2013, 06:25 PM
Yes, but only because I am intrigued as to how you might do that. What is your flappo lure?

He is attracted to photos of male genitalia....

:gulp:

And really old software.

ELVIS
02-14-2013, 06:27 PM
Flappo or Doc ?

Kristy
02-14-2013, 07:03 PM
Removing all our freedoms one by one. Look no further than Mein Bloomberg and his weekly allotment of things to ban from the people.

Much like the mods around here.

Nickdfresh
02-14-2013, 07:28 PM
Flappo or Doc ?

Irregardless, why are you offering to be the "lure?"

Dr. Love
02-14-2013, 07:29 PM
Flappo or Doc ?

Excuse me. That was completely uncalled for.


I like new software.

ELVIS
02-14-2013, 07:43 PM
To each he/she his own...

LoungeMachine
02-14-2013, 07:49 PM
Much like the mods around here.

:thumb: Cool story, Bro

jhale667
02-14-2013, 07:57 PM
:thumb: Cool story, Bro

:lmao:

Nickdfresh
02-14-2013, 08:06 PM
Freedom of cunt!

jhale667
02-14-2013, 08:15 PM
"My right to be a total fucktard is being infringed upon!"


:lol:


So write your congressman or something...

Angel
02-15-2013, 11:13 AM
What I don't like about photoshop is that it's used to bully kids. Adults, imo are fair game.

ZahZoo
02-15-2013, 11:41 AM
No, but the fact this tool actually stated this stupidity publically shows he's far beyond moronic.

As I suspected he's a Democrat... makes sense it's a different kind of stupid because he's not saying something bizarrely moronic about rape.

Nitro Express
02-15-2013, 12:00 PM
As I suspected he's a Democrat... makes sense it's a different kind of stupid because he's not saying something bizarrely moronic about rape.

So what you are saying is you can tell who is who and what is what by the flavor of their insanity. I'm starting to think the only sane, practical people left in this country are the Mexican migrant workers who roll up their sleeves and do real work for a living. LOL! Everyone else is a paper tiger that has completely gone certifiable.

ELVIS
02-15-2013, 12:03 PM
I'm not...