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Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« on: 2011-06-09 21:56:18 »
Tennessee, a state once represented by the Internet's inventor, Al Gore, has banned "the transmission or display of an image that is likely to 'frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to' anyone who sees it".

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"Last Monday, Tennessee's Governer Bill Haslam signed a law prohibiting the transmission or display of an image that is likely to 'frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to' anyone who sees it. In Tennessee, it is already illegal to use other methods of communication, such as telephones or e-mail, to offend someone; the new law updates legislation to include images sent or posted online. However, the scope of this law is broader, in that anyone who sees the image is a potential victim. If a court finds that a violator should have known that someone would be offended by the image in question, they face up to a year in prison or up to $2,500 in fines."

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WHERE'S YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT NOW?

The US is more repressive than Britain

>Al Gore's face when he sees goatse:


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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #1 on: 2011-06-09 22:28:49 »
Typical PC lefty hypocrite...  free speech as long as I agree with it.

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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #2 on: 2011-06-09 22:37:57 »
The man who signed the law is a Republican

Al Gore was used for illustrative purposes only

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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #3 on: 2011-06-09 23:18:24 »
just sent that governor an e-mail full of gay porn and aborted fetuses

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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #4 on: 2011-06-09 23:20:10 »
Well he is as bad.  Too many are PC and only agree to free speech when it suits them.  Offending is not a crime, it is a byproduct of many intelligent arguments with people who are closed minded.

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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #5 on: 2011-06-10 01:18:52 »
lol is this a joke? So if i go there, I could say a picture of someone's baby offends me and get them arrested?

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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #6 on: 2011-06-10 03:11:20 »
It's not so broad as "this happened to annoy someone" as "this was used to solely annoy a person(s) with no other possible motive."

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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #7 on: 2011-06-10 03:43:51 »
It's not so broad as "this happened to annoy someone" as "this was used to solely annoy a person(s) with no other possible motive."

But the way the law was worded, it can be used for "this happened to annoy someone"

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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #8 on: 2011-06-12 01:56:42 »
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If a court finds that a violator should have known that someone would be offended by the image in question, they face up to a year in prison or up to $2,500 in fines.

Dear God, how am I supposed to know a random lunatic would come and scream "I'm offended!"?

"Someone" could be freaking anybody. A simple thumbs up outside of United States but inside America means sexual insult. If a guy from Latin comes and get offended by my thumbs up flyer, what am I supposed say?

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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #9 on: 2011-06-12 04:49:10 »
Is this really that big of news? Harassment laws have been plaguing many states for years. If you lived in my county and I just plain didnt like you, I could get a warrant sworn out on you just by claiming you harassed me by cursing me. Yes you can go to jail for cursing someone. You can even go to jail because someone SAID you cursed them, with them having no proof.

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« Reply #10 on: 2011-06-12 13:52:00 »
Is this really that big of news? Harassment laws have been plaguing many states for years. If you lived in my county and I just plain didnt like you, I could get a warrant sworn out on you just by claiming you harassed me by cursing me. Yes you can go to jail for cursing someone. You can even go to jail because someone SAID you cursed them, with them having no proof.

It sounds like your county is run by complete fuckwits.

Will I go to prison for calling them that? ;D

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« Reply #11 on: 2011-06-12 19:11:39 »
It sounds like your county is run by complete f*ckwits.

Will I go to prison for calling them that? :-D
Careful Kudi we have been known to "cross the pond" to peacefully enforce our beliefs onto others :-D .

On that same note, jeff is a little confused...yes you may send a "commoner" to prison if you like. But please try to pull that same trick on a high ranking official...or any official for that matter, or a person with lots o' moneys I can guarantee the outcome will be vastly different then the outcome of a regular individual.

See us here in America claim that we are all equal, but like every other country we are not. You think if Justin Bieber was in town, and you made a complaint, would he go to jail? No. YOU would most likely go to jail! Why? Cause your a regular person complaining about a special person :) therefore you must be wrong.

Now the really cool thing about being in the "High" class of American IE (all celebs and politicians) is it's like chess! You now have rights over that of even people who don't live in your country! Proof: If O' Bama logged into Qhimm got into a fight with Kudi, Kudi would then have serious problems in his own country! They would kick his door in moments after (or during) the argument.

Moral of the story? is yes you can make a complaint without proof...but weary who you complain about or to ;-) .
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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #12 on: 2011-06-16 18:26:18 »
well most foreigners are more aware of this than most of us americans, but sadly the entire US constitution has been completely and entirely subverted. Yes you can still argue in a court of law for your right to free speech, until they label you a terrorist, at which time they can hold you indefinitely without even telling you why. There is no legal requirement for what constitutes a suspected terrorist and what doesn't. The other scenario, when the times comes, is when the president declares a state of national emergency. There are Executive laws, (which by the way are against the constitution at the very core, executive branch was never meant to make laws) some of which have now been declassified or unearthed, that state that once this condition of emergency is met, the entire Constitution can be placed on "hold". However there is no such similar order to ever reinstate the constitution should the "emergency" come to an end.

I can come back later and post the official titles of these orders if anyone would like and you will be able to find them yourself in the Congressional Registry. As for the bit about terrorism, just read the "Patriot Act". Bah, what a horribly ironic title.

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« Reply #13 on: 2011-06-16 20:35:17 »
Careful Kudi we have been known to "cross the pond" to peacefully enforce our beliefs onto others :-D .

Ahem! You know that we were talking about his county in BFE, not his country, right? ;D

If O' Bama logged into Qhimm got into a fight with Kudi, Kudi would then have serious problems in his own country! They would kick his door in moments after (or during) the argument.

He wouldn't dare. Obama knows that I'd bust a move on his ass.

well most foreigners are more aware of this than most of us americans, but sadly the entire US constitution has been completely and entirely subverted. Yes you can still argue in a court of law for your right to free speech, until they label you a terrorist, at which time they can hold you indefinitely without even telling you why. There is no legal requirement for what constitutes a suspected terrorist and what doesn't. The other scenario, when the times comes, is when the president declares a state of national emergency. There are Executive laws, (which by the way are against the constitution at the very core, executive branch was never meant to make laws) some of which have now been declassified or unearthed, that state that once this condition of emergency is met, the entire Constitution can be placed on "hold". However there is no such similar order to ever reinstate the constitution should the "emergency" come to an end.


You don't know how lucky you are. For all the failings of the American system, it's still a million times better than the shitfest we have in Britain, with unelected executive branches running roughshod over rights that aren't protected by a written constitution and no effective checks or balances. Just look at the DMCA, or British libel laws, or the super-injunction bullshit with Ryan Giggs (freedom of the press for sale to the highest bidder); you'll be glad that you live in the US.

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« Reply #14 on: 2011-06-17 16:30:07 »
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Ahem! You know that we were talking about his county in BFE, not his country, right?
Had to look up the term BFE =/. But you are correct Tennessee doesn't count.

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He wouldn't dare. Obama knows that I'd bust a move on his ass.
Well that is true...you do have moves. But I heard thought the grapevine that Obama personally caught Osama :) you have been warned.

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You don't know how lucky you are. For all the failings of the American system
I do know how lucky I am! I never stated that I would like to live in Europe. Though Europe has been around allot longer the the US, and you probably don't get to turn on the news everyday hearing about what country we have an issue with this day. :(

In short my point was we pretend something we are not, yes you have different laws but I don't think them any more or less efficient then our own system. In fact there is no proof that our system even works :/ I was tellin' Covarr earlier that we have only been around for 200+ years. Most of that time we spent in a deficient, depression, recession, civil war, ad internal disputes... It's hard for me to believe that the system we got over here works when the only time we were doing ok was when we had slavery :/.

Not that I encourage slavery...Just making an observation, kinda hard to not make money when you got free help.

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« Reply #15 on: 2011-06-17 18:51:14 »
I can tell you now that your laws and safeguards are definitely better than in Britain...

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« Reply #16 on: 2011-06-17 19:45:01 »

In short my point was we pretend something we are not, yes you have different laws but I don't think them any more or less efficient then our own system. In fact there is no proof that our system even works :/ I was tellin' Covarr earlier that we have only been around for 200+ years. Most of that time we spent in a deficient, depression, recession, civil war, ad internal disputes... It's hard for me to believe that the system we got over here works when the only time we were doing ok was when we had slavery :/.


That's a very pessimistic take on American history. You seem to forget that the US went from being an agricultural backwater to being by far the most powerful nation on Earth.

And the US had its most rapid growth in the decades after slavery was abolished. Around the turn of the 20th century, the US had decades of growth that was comparable, if not greater than, the growth that China is seeing now. There was the occasional recession, but the overall growth during the US's industrialisation was phenomenal. That was back when the federal government's powers were even more limited than they are today.

If the American system of government had been as convoluted and slap-dash as the British one, the US would probably still be known as "that country with all the farmers that exports lots of cotton and maize".

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« Reply #17 on: 2011-06-17 20:30:39 »
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I can tell you now that your laws and safeguards are definitely better than in Britain...
I wasn't saying that the Britain was better...I was just stating that Europe has been around allot longer then US. So it is hard to say who has the working system yet. I know if we keep at this pace we will not last at #1.

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That's a very pessimistic take on American history.
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You seem to forget that the US went from being an agricultural backwater to being by far the most powerful nation on Earth.
And the US had its most rapid growth in the decades after slavery was abolished.
Doesn't mean it didn't help solidify our position. A little bit more closer look at our history shows that we had a pretty great start! It is unfair to directly compare them, we betrayed the indians (and used them), we betrayed England (and used them), took all their money and resources, and used them for our own gain.

Yes we had allot of growth, still hit a depression shortly after slavery though :/. Even with the free help and all the queens money, and the child laborers, we still had a hard time remaining stable for half of our existence. In-Fact China is predicted to surpass us very soon...

Like I said I'm not debating if Europe system is better I just don't think we have the best we have not been stable long enough to even proves that it works. History only proves that we are the best right now, but that will soon change. My other point boiled down to practice what you preach, and the US doesn't do that.

I love the US! I just wish we didn't own soo much moneys it doesn't look like we will ever pay anyone back.

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« Reply #18 on: 2011-06-20 18:18:55 »
You have to understand that the reason that our system doesn't work is because the Constitution of the United States of America has only acted as the Supreme Law of the Land, as it was intended to be, during only  two small periods of time in America's short history. During all other periods it was subverted by crooked banking systems and treasonous politicians. Also note during those two short periods of true liberty we were incredibly successful and peaceful.

Believe your history books if you'd like or do your research and realize that the British banking cartels that we're, in the words of Ben Franklin "probably the prime cause of the revolution" were back in business in America as early as 1801. Which means we had not even 30 years of real freedom before the oppressive "money manipulators", as good Mr. Franklin once called them, were back in full swing and stealing wealth from the hard working people of the era.

 It wasn't until the civil war under Lincoln that we again pushed the Central Bankers from out of this land and established the Greenback as our non-inflated currency, and again for a short time we experienced prosperity. It is ironic, however, that that which brought us this second wave of prosperity is what ultimately undid it. You see the declaration of "Martial Law" that was enacted during the Civil War was never officially lifted by congress and is, in fact, technically still in effect to this day. It is because of this loophole that again in 1909 (or maybe 1919, can't remember right now) the Federal Reserve Bank was founded (actually this is not a federal institution at all, it is a private cooperation. The name is just to play at Americans' ignorance) and our money was again in the hands of the oppressors. To mark the occasion of America's return to oppression, we in this country experienced the beginning of The Great Depression in that very same year. I for one do not believe in coincidence. So in total that gave us about 50 to 60 more years of true liberty in this country until the FED came about.

So to sum up, for less than half of this countries history, (about 80 years) we have truly been living under the code of conduct (The Constitution) that is so willfully advertised in all our history books and within its own pages as "The Supreme Law of the Land". However, in reality, The Constitution in its current state amounts to little more, in this day and age, than as a means of defense, or in other words, a nice excuse to send your children to war. Unfortunately in doing so you are sending them to fight on the side of the very same group of peoples who subverted the Constitution in the first place.

Say what you want about America being so much better, but in all honestly, and for all intents and purpose, Britain, and European royalty in general, effectively owns this country through the use of the same banking schemes that they practiced and perfected on that side of the Atlantic so many years ago.

I'll just leave you with a quote by the man who found the Theory of Economic Inductance, Mr. Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

"Give me control of a nation's currency and I care not who makes it's laws"

I for one believe in the power of The Constitution of the United States of America, and I believe that it is because of that power that it allows its people, in theory (unfortunately no longer in reality), that it has been so cunningly and completely subverted without you ever knowing a thing about what really took place in this country. Call it conspiracy theory if you'd like to think your educated, but anyone who is a, Economics or Poli Sci major knows full well about the plans for Globalization and it is already the accepted and official end decided upon. Truly its not even hidden anymore. Its sad to me that it is Americans themselves who are most ignorant of the truth of American History, as well as about the true Great American individuals who once called this land their own (the best example I can think of this statement is the common public's ignorance toward Nikola Tesla's achievements).

I will gladly give you references were you to ask for them so that you can verify this information for your very own. But sadly few rarely ask for it, and I find my hands full just trying to stay on top of reality myself let alone convince you of what I already know to be true. It is your duty under the Constitution to educate yourself, and I as a fellow American, will gladly help you find the truth if you actually give a shit to know it.  I am not, however going to spend a few hours collecting my references (there are literally hundreds of books and laws I can make aware to you) so that they will go completely ignored by someone who just wants to believe what mommy and daddy preached to them as children. I have done it before and do not mind doing it for those who wish to see it. Which is why I ask for further inquiry, and nothing more, before I bother to take the time and prove my above statements beyond a shadow of a doubt to the investigative mind.

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« Reply #19 on: 2011-06-20 18:32:25 »


Boy this conversation is getting weirder by the post! Of course banks own us :P we all knew that :) We are talking about who has the better "system" I simply pointed out that we just don't know yet that the system the good o' US of A works :/. Sure we have it great right  at this very moment. But time has not been kind to us...


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« Reply #21 on: 2011-06-20 18:36:04 »
whatever, enjoy being owned if you wish, I myself would rather die. Your insult is of little injury.

You think we have it good until you realize the average mark up of a prescription drug in the United States of America is, on average, 2,000%. The price of ignorance is slavery. (can't remember who said that). Keep in mind that these drugs do not even actually cure anything, but actually make you sicker and in need of more expensive meds. How do I know this? I now work for the largest organic herbal researcher and distributor on the planet. We research medicinal herbs right down to the genomic structure. We make the medicines that truly heal people, and we've been doing it for 30 years now. All at a price that is drastically less expensive than a lifetime of prescriptions and doctors visits. How did I get this job, even at such a young age? I educated myself and became aware of the problems I face in this ignorant society and sought to become a part of the solution. I then acted on thorough and specific plans that I set for myself and ended up exactly were I wanted to be. In other words, the effective application of practical knowledge (or wisdom) is true power and freedom. Since I am very comfortable with my position right now, there is little that you can say that would "make me feel bad".

Now back to the point, what I am saying is that we use the exact same system, it is only the guise of freedom that makes this land, supposedly, (although not in my opinion) slightly better than that of Europe. If anything its worse IMO, since they literally own us and we, the American citizens, literally fall at the very bottom of the global food chain. You'd realize that if you realized that the history of an argument, so long as it is presented truthfully, is always a valid point.
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« Reply #22 on: 2011-06-20 18:43:24 »
whatever, enjoy being owned if you wish, I myself would rather die. Your insult is of little injury.

I do not wish to insult you yarLson  :|

If the "banks" are as powerful as you make the sound. There would be no use in "resisting" them would there? unless you have no land your own currency and even your own country for that matter...you are indeed "giving in" to them :(.

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« Reply #23 on: 2011-06-20 18:48:48 »
the banks are only the first step, supplement this with the business institutions (implementation and acceptance of the crooked banking procedures), military institution (brain-washed war slaves), disinformation (mass media), political corruption (modern politics), Standardized Education (which can only be called a mockery of the true meaning of the word education for self evident reasons), Religion (accepted ignorance of analytical truth), Medical Slavery (addictive and expensive, ineffective medicines and procedures), Intelligence Agencies (CIA, NSA etc which collect mountains of data on the general public), and last but not least the global war on drugs (which is, in truth, funded by the government to control population and promote ignorance), all in a compartmentalized structure (meaning that one branch, institution or company does not know what the other(s) is/are doing or is/are accountable for) then you have something that appears to have absolutely no flaw. *I updated my post to include all aspects of the pyramid of corruption after making a quick reference.*

 And if you remain in that mindset of "resistance is the only option" then you will never find a flaw. That is until you examine it further and realize that they achieve all this by playing on the ignorance of the masses. In affect, the only solution is mass education, not mass resistance. Which is where the company that I work for, and countless other institutions and individuals step in. Who knows how it will end up, but I'd rather be on the side that is fighting for a solution rather than submitting to the problem.

I'll just leave this here
www.freeyourmindconference.com/
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Re: Offending people is illegal in Tennessee
« Reply #24 on: 2011-06-20 19:11:51 »
I refuse to visit a site with someone who looks like this...



He looks like one of those 80's backround thugs who get hit one time and get knocked out  :-( . Not someone who is going to free my mind. I know looks aren't everything, but if you are so enlightened mayhaps you should take a trip to Macy's for a bit of shopping? Also, his website needs work. Perhaps he should free his mind on sum CSS classes :)