Annoy Me and You’ll Go To Jail, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #270 @MDWorld

April 9, 2012 Mike Gold 2 Comments

The time may come when, if you read this column online, I could be put in jail. That time may come soon… starting in Arizona.

Arizona House Bill 2549 states if you post an offensive annoying comment online, you are guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. What is offensive? What is annoying? The bill criminalizes behavior that is used “to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend (using) any electronic or digital device.” Of course, it also outlaws lewd or profane language. You could be fined $250,000, and you could be sentenced to six months in the clinker.

Do you think this un-American attack on liberty could not possibly pass? Well, you’re wrong. The folks in the Arizona house and the Arizona senate have already passed this bill and it presently awaits their governor’s signature.

Do you think this is only Arizona, a state filled with freedom-hating fascists who make Torquemada look like Mister Rogers? Well, you’re right about Arizona, but they have proven to be a vanguard state. Their totalitarian immigration laws that compel the police to arrest people with foreign-looking or foreign-sounding features who cannot prove they’re here lawfully have influenced similar laws across the nation. Their banning of late-term abortions and their efforts in removing birth control from health care coverage have been even more-widely, and more-wildly, adopted or introduced in state legislatures across this nation.

No, don’t blame Arizona’s progressive attitude towards regressive laws restricting American freedoms. Blame the politically correct movement. We have so overly sensitized our nation that the slightest emotional breeze now breeds a psychological plague. That’s where all this started. A bunch of people who don’t have the courage or are too lazy to stand up for their own mores have been criminalizing our language. There’s very, very little distance between Arizona HB 2549 and so-called Hate Speech, which is the daddy of this act.

Freedom of speech only applies to speech that the politically correct find acceptable. This directly contradicts the intent of the Bill of Rights, the purpose of which is to protect minority freedoms, to provide a level playing field for all Americans. We do not need the First Amendment if we are unwilling to apply it to thoughts and beliefs that are unpopular at this moment.

If you think this bill, if signed, would be rejected by the Supreme Court, I strongly urge you not to bet the rent on this. Take a look at the decisions made by our Supreme Court lately.

And then ask me again after the November elections.

Offensive speech? Arizona HB 2549 is offensive speech.

Now go put me in jail, you cocksucking motherfucking electronic book burning Nazis.

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Freedom Fighter Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking bizarro music and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com, every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, replayed three times during the week (check the website above for times). It’s also available On Demand at the same venue.