That’s Some Top Drawer Discourse, Right There
Posted by Caleb O. Brown on January 11th, 2008 in kentucky, law, lawmaker, liberty, policy |
David Adams at the Bluegrass Institute takes a bizarre shot at legislative analysis:
Rep. Charlie Hoffman eats boogers
The headline you just read could get me thrown in jail for up to ninety days if the above-referenced booger-eater from Georgetown has his way.HB 281 prohibits communication via the internet “which causes annoyance or alarm and serves no purpose of legitimate communication.”And since I’m clearly unrepentent, my soon-to-follow second offense would land me in jail for up to a year.In 2008, it should go without saying that we err on the side of liberty and thick skin on the internet.Given that it costs municipalities in Kentucky up to $88.44 a day to put someone in our already-overcrowded jails, maybe we can call this the Thin Skinned Tax-Raising Ninny Act of 2008.
I suppose the post is meant to suggest that Rep. Hoffman should reread Section 1 of the Kentucky Constitution (not to mention the First Amendment) and perhaps he’d realize that he should either begin filing bills that comport to the documents to which he has sworn an oath … or choose another line of work.Actually, that sounds like a pretty civil way to say the same thing David did. Perhaps that post was meant for David’s less-reserved other blog. Let’s hope so.
One Response
I actually considered very seriously whether to put this post on my personal political blog or on the Institute’s policy blog. And I could have made the point in any number of ways, as you suggest.
But I kept coming back to the part of the bill about “no purpose of legitimate communication.”
That’s like name-calling, right? And the bill is so absurd by itself, I decided to go for the gusto.
It worked.
The fair analysis is on the Kentucky Votes site (which I linked to) and the attention-getting device is on the blog, which the idea of a blog.
That post has received 500 hits (and counting) since just this morning.
Your criticism is fair, though. I have fought the temptation to go for the sensational to draw attention to the policy blog. Today’s results don’t really solve anything one way or the other on that front. I’m still not getting many comments.
As always, tomorrow I will go back to the drawing board and try to get it right.