Congress passes huge anti-indecency fines 99-1

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-06-22 03:04pm

By a 99-1 vote, Congress has approved huge new fines for on-air indecency, including the baring of a breast or the utterance of foul language. Welcome to the 19th century.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-22 03:07pm

UGH! At least it doesnt extend to cable.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-06-22 03:07pm

Who was the one person who actually gives a shit about the Bill or Rights?

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-06-22 03:08pm

Good! I'm glad they are finally taking steps to banning Godless baring of mammaries and foul language that is corrupting America's Youth on our televisions! Hallelujah!

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-06-22 03:08pm

You know, there's a line between 'conservative' and 'regressive'. From the looks of it, quite a few walked across the line.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-06-22 03:09pm

Hmm. This means that a Californian senator voted for this...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-06-22 03:10pm

BWAHAHAHA!!!

i´m considering voting for bush now, just to get even more funny, because retarded bits of news per day.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-06-22 03:14pm

Durandal wrote:Who was the one person who actually gives a shit about the Bill or Rights?

Well, the senate.gov hasn't updated yet, so they don't have the record on who voted against it yet.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-06-22 03:14pm

So did it pass the House, or just the Senate?

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-06-22 03:18pm

HemlockGrey wrote:So did it pass the House, or just the Senate?

Yeah, it passed the House, 391 to 22.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-06-22 03:19pm

Senate.gov has a list of recent activity. One is an amendment to a bill (S.2400) regarding indecency on air. The funny thing is, the bill it's being amended to, S.2400, is a defense budget bill:

"An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes."

Scummy governmental practices. What a shock.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-06-22 03:20pm

gah. well, so much for freedom of speach. so. . .exactly what does it take to become a canadian citizen again?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-06-22 03:21pm

oh, oh, oh, not only that, but S.2400 has a few other amendments to it as well:

"To require certain dietary supplement manufacturers to report certain serious adverse events."

"To require a protocol on media coverage of the return to the United States of the remains of members of the Armed Forces who die overseas."

"To provide for additional factors in indecency penalties issued by the Federal Communications Commission."

"To express the sense of the Senate concerning legislation requiring reports of serious adverse events related to dietary supplements and over-the-counter drugs."

lmfao..

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-06-22 03:21pm

kojikun wrote:Senate.gov has a list of recent activity. One is an amendment to a bill (S.2400) regarding indecency on air. The funny thing is, the bill it's being amended to, S.2400, is a defense budget bill:

"An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes."

Scummy governmental practices. What a shock.

Ah, of course. Piggy back it on something that no one in their right mind would vote against. Beautie.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-06-22 03:28pm

This is why we need Line Item Veto.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-06-22 03:35pm

Agreed. This Piggybacking is insane. Who attached that rider?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-06-22 03:36pm

The Senate website says this:

18. S.AMDT.3235 to S.2400 To increase the penalties for violations by television and radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against transmission of obscene, indecent, and profane language.
Sponsor: Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] (introduced 5/20/2004) Cosponsors (2)
Latest Major Action: 6/21/2004 Considered by Senate.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-06-22 03:39pm

I'm not so sure about line-vetos but I'd sure as hell support an amendment banning riders.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-06-22 03:45pm

SirNitram wrote:You know, there's a line between 'conservative' and 'regressive'. From the looks of it, quite a few walked across the line.

Oddly enough, to total number of senators and congressmen who voted to enact this law...

420

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-06-22 03:48pm

I am going to chuckle when I see the vote tally. I have a sneaking suspicion that John McCain may be that 1 vote... I dont know why...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-06-22 03:55pm

The Land of the Free just got that little bit less free-er.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-06-22 03:58pm

LadyTevar wrote:This is why we need Line Item Veto.

YES.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-06-22 04:04pm

You know, it's things like this that make me want to change my mind about who to vote for. I mean, originally, I was going with the 'lesser of two evils' ballot, but recently changed my mind seeing as how Kerry's awful hesitant to explain to people exactly what type of evil he is. I've considered throwing the futile 3rd. party vote just as a sign of disgust with both parties, but now I'm rethinking that. Maybe I should vote for Bush, and hope he does something so supremely stupid over the next four years that *everyone* will finally get the point and drum him out of office.

Nah, I prefer to be arrogant and honest when it comes to politics.

-Damien

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-06-22 04:05pm

Darth Wong wrote:By a 99-1 vote, Congress has approved huge new fines for on-air indecency, including the baring of a breast or the utterance of foul language. Welcome to the 19th century.

So it's now illegal to show a lot of movies in their unedited state?

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-06-22 04:06pm

Nah, I prefer to be arrogant and honest when it comes to politics.

Then you best vote Green Party because they are both lieing little weasels that cannot be trusted.

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