January 27, 2009
Idiot politician alert (GOP edition)
Okay, fair's fair. Having knocked idiot actors in the previous post, allow me to target a Congressional crapweasel. And he's a Republican, too.
Smile, say cheese and hold that pose till you hear the 'click'. A new bill introduced in the Congress by New York Republican Rep. Peter King requires mobile phones with digital cameras "to make a sound" when a photograph is taken.
The move is part of the 'Camera Phone Predator Alert Act' and the idea is to ensure privacy and safety of the public, especially children, claims the bill.
"Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone," says the draft of the bill, which was introduced earlier this month.
If enacted the bill would require any mobile phone in the US to make a sound "audible within a reasonable radius of the phone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera in such phone." A mobile phone manufactured after the date the bill is enacted will have no way of disabling or silencing the sound.
Because, you see, with the economy reeling, the Democrats throwing money at any and all special interest groups with their hands out, Iran about to go nuclear and jihadists burning Obama's picture overseas and working themselves into a lather about the new Great Satan (same as the old Great Satan), Rep. King can think of nothing more important than imposing federal regulations on digital cameraphones.
"For the children," of course, which is supposed to make it all okay.
I sincerely hope a conservative, limited-government Republican mounts a primary challenge to this fool.
Posted by Mike Lief at January 27, 2009 11:59 PM
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Comments
Oh brother, it pissed me off too...I just disabled the shuitter sound on my camera phone. So there -- crapweasel
Posted by: Schmedly at January 28, 2009 08:55 AM
Idiot Republican Politician = Redundancy Alert, Redundancy Alert, AAAAOOOOOOGAAAHHHHH
Posted by: The Little Coach at January 28, 2009 11:50 AM