Whether you like Iraqi president Jalal Talabani or not, very few people want the USA to adapt Iraq’s political system. Imagine my surprise when Agence France-Presse reported that we were now using the same voting system pioneered by former Iraqi dictator, Sadam Hussein.While I found this hard to believe at first, it’s true. In 2002, AFP reported that 100 percent of Iraqi’s voted—and 100 percent of them voted for Sadam. Yesterday, CNET stated 99.5 percent of Congressional representatives voted in favor of the Securing Adolescents From Exploitation—Online Act, or SAFE Act. That’s right 409 of the 411 congressional representatives lost the ability to think individually and succumbed to “groupthink.”
While not getting into the merits of whether anybody with a public wi-fi connection should be forced to report illegal images to the authorities, or face fined of up to $300,000, the two Republican Paul’s—Ron Paul and Paul—voted no to protect the many small business which offer this service from having to comply with yet another law.
And while we’re on the topic of laws, I like to see the government enforce ALL of the laws we have, before they introduce NEW laws. That’s right, there are a zillion laws on the books which are not being enforced. Last year while I was traveling around the USA, I saw thousands of people breaking the law—and getting away with it.
For example, in Tucson, Arizona, women are not permitted to wear pants—but when I reported all of these ladies to the police—they laughed. I got a similar response in Blythe, California when I nailed everybody who was wearing cowboy boats—who didn’t own the two cows necessary to wear this footwear. And in LA, I saw a lot of people buying lunch at their local convenience stores and bringing it back to the office—totally disregarding the law which prohibits people from carrying lunch down the street between 11 AM and 1 PM.
Other transgressions include women wearing red dresses in the streets Pueblo, Colorado, after 7 PM; people eating in their cars in Bloomfield, Connecticut; boys throwing stones in the District of Columbia, unmarried women parachuting on Sunday in Florida; citizens saying “Oh, boy,” in Jonesboro, Georgia; and thousands of Hawaiian’s getting away without owning a boat.
While I’m not a big fan of lawyers, they do have their uses. The US government says that it’s illegal to give false weather reports—so the next time my favorite radio station predicts snow, and it doesn’t come down by the bucked-load, I’m suing them for millions of dollars.
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