JR of WV on TV
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) is proposing legislation that will allow the FCC to regulate violence not only on broadcast television, but, for the first time ever, on cable and satellite programming as well.
Since the original (flawed) reasoning that allowed limited government regulation of TV content only applied to broacasting, clearly Senator Rockefeller believes he's come up with a new way to circumvent the First Amendment. In fact, he must have such a powerful rationale that I don't understand why he's limiting his law to television--if the hand of government can reach this far into our homes and personal choices, why is he still allowing us free choice in movies, newspapers, magazines and books? Come on, Senator, don't be a piker, you know what's best for us--don't let us make all these decisions for ourselves.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:04 AM
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This is headline-grabbing at its worst. Just like increasing the bounty on Osama's head which LAA Guy noted a few days ago (apparently on the basis that he now has to use bad MDs to pull off his plots- hey they'd kill more people if you just let'em do their job at the hospital), this is meant to put a headline in someone's campaign literature. Senator Rockefeller's bill unfortunately sounds eerily like Mitt Romney's odd New Hampshire commercials this week where he complains about our kids playing in an ocean polluted by sex (The ad is a little cleaner now but in its first airing, the version was positively bizarre)
In the recent state legislative campaign, the law and order candidates all pushed for toughening the sex crime laws- I think they may have increased the maximum sentence for certain level offenses 5 times in the past 12 years- yes I'm sure that the sexual offender will think twice if the maximum sentence is 34 instead of 28 years.
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