South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford (D) has introduced a bill that, essentially, seeks to outlaw profanity.
S.56 would prohibit the public utterance or publication of printed material containing profanity. It would also make it illegal to "exhibit or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature."
On the video game front, presumably, this might encompass the F-bombs included not only in Grand Theft Auto IV's dialogue but in Band of Brothers: Hell's Highway and various other M-rated games. Movies, books, websites, magazines, music and cable TV, of course, would also be threatened.
The proposal would make the dissemination of such profanity a felony, punishable by five years in jail or a $5,000 fine. Or both.
Via: Slashdot
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Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
As the late great Richard Pryor said in reference to Bill Cosby wanting commedian "role models" to stop saying the F word ("Floobity Flibbity" as he called it), "...he can have a Coke and a smile and shut the fuck up".
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Actually thats what he Told Cosby to do, not just in reference.
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It ain't gonna pass, CAUSE THE MOTHA FUCKIN 1st AMENDMENT BITCH!
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Let's see SC is facing a huge budget deficit this year, the Gov of SC is cutting back on education and law enforcement. Now the Gov of SC isn't dumb even if this were to some how pass the state legislature, there is no way he'd sign it. This is an expensive court battle waiting to happen. I can't see him telling the SC Attorney General to cut his budget but at the same time defending this.
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I must admit I kinda like the basis of this proposed law. I've never been a fan of profanity - if you can't figure out a way to make people know how angry you are, you need to go back to school and learn some useful English words.
Of course there's a HUGE problem with it - who gets to decide what is "profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent"?
This will never pass. There's no story here. Move along, move along.
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I find your opinion as shallow as a puddle, and as well thought out as an inflatable dart board.
Some people just grow up around people who swear and to them the swear words are nothing special. I used to live in a section of New England where people used 'hell' all the time and then I moved to a section of North Carolina where they consider hell a swear word. I uttered in school that it was hot as hell out and I got in some trouble.
Also sometimes you just can't express in non profane ways your exact feelings. You can go on and on about your general distate for someone but you can express all that and more by just calling them a c*nt.
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As the disconnect between society grows banning open thought is needed for its contenuied survival......
Life is profane either deal with it or ban it.....
Gore,Violence,Sexauilty,Fear,Emotion these are but modes
of transportation of story and thought, to take them from
society and you create a society of children and nannys.
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"exhibit or otherwise make available material containing words, language, or actions of a profane, vulgar, lewd, lascivious, or indecent nature."
oh shit.
the world would end, can't EXHIBIT?
means no sex!
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Whatever, considering Obscenities are already an unprotected form of speech
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Obscenity is not swearing. It's a different legal matter.
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Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Check the dictionary
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
I'm talking the legal definition.
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Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
I'll say what I want when I want where I want protected under the constitution, and if I cannot exercise my first amendment rights I will exercise my second amendment rights, and possibly go beyond what is allowed by the second amendment until my first amendment rights are secure.
The scary part of this is I'm in Oklahoma and I feel this way. South carolina is a confederate state that succeeded from the union once not too long ago over their rights being violated. I can't imagine what kind of shitstorm this guy kicked up.
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Anyone besides me notice that the response to a law against profanity is a nuclear barrage of profanity? I like it.
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You hell is he to say what constitutes profanity and what isn't. fucking bastard needs to just shut the hell up. little shit like this bastard need to get the shit beat out of them. what is so appealing about a fucking nanny state any way.
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
anyone living in SC should go to the capitol with protest signs that say "Fuck Your Censorship"
Here are we -- and yonder yawns the universe.
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Someone please tell me this is a joke. This is why now I hate most politicians and will be glad when the current generation in office croaks from old age or cancer. It's also sad that despite every court ruling, these idiots continue to push for nanny state bullshit like this. I don't care if this is a republican which I am as well, he needs to be ousted from his spot because he is unfit to serve for introducing crap like this.
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Holy shit. Hasn't this cocksucker read the motherfucking constitution? Only a fucking cunt would make cussing a felony. This pisses me off. This guy deserves a punch to the tits.
Let's see... Okay, got all seven.
"That's not ironic. That's justice."
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If you outlaw profanity only outlaws will be able to tell you to go screw yourself.
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
No it's worse than that.
You see people swear all the time and if you can make a law that criminalizes something nearly everyone does, then you can throw in jail anyone you want.
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Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Why must it be my party that's always trying to do this?
well, not in SC so didn't and couldn't vote for him anyway, so fuck him
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How the FUCK(ba dum pish) is this guy still in office?
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This has got to be the dumbest bill I have ever seen. What. The. Hell.
Is the entire world going insane!??!
Only by letting strangers in can we find new ways to be ourselves.
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Some may consider the Confederate Flag flying over the South Carolina statehouse 'profane'.
So does that mean they will take that down too?
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That would be $5,000 per state employee, and they'd all be felons.
Yay stupidity!
"That's not ironic. That's justice."
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I got to thinking at work, where we operate a very very blue room...maybe this is how he intends to help the government balance the budget?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g
Just thought I'd toss this out there...
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Our UK government may have a hard-on for trying to be a nanny-state, but even they wouldn't be stupid enough to try something like this.
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Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Going to be a very intresting evening on the Colbert Report tonight. Isn't he FROM south Carolina?
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
Um... WHAT? Is he actually expecting this to work?
Truth is INDEED stranger than fiction...
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
um, by trying to outlaw profanity, they're trying to outlaw freedom of speech?
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
What a fucking asshole trying to pass a piece of shit bill like this. You can't do something that fucking stupid because it goes against the 1st ammendment.
When Jack Thompson runs his mouth, does anyone really care what he has to say anymore?
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I don't even really see how they could enforce a bill like this.
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That guy seems like a fucking asshole.
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"punishable by five years in jail or a $5,000 fine. Or both."
Anyone else think this violates the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the 8th amendment? It's possible it doesn't I'm no legal expert.
But it's not like this asshole gives a shit about the Constitution.
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Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
It's about the same as a kdi taking another kid's toy car and getting charged with Grand theft auto.
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And then having it punishible by the kid being sent to a federal prison with murderers.
"That's not ironic. That's justice."
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" prohibit the public utterance or publication of printed material containing profanity."
When asked how this bill doesn't trample on free press or free speech the senator just stared blankly and said 'since when do those things matter?'
Now let us all join hands and send a message to Robert Ford.
FUCK YOU!
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Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
I'd love to hear what Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Behavioral therapy, would say about this kind of garbage. This is a guy who in therapy would often call out his clients for their bs in no uncertain terms. Hell one of his favorite self made words is "musterbation" and he made songs for his clients to sing like this...
LET'S LEAVE THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME!
(Old Folks at Home by Stephen Foster)
Let us suppose my goddamned Mother
Filled me with pap.
I listened and I let her smother
And carry on her crap!
Let us suppose my crazy father
called me a shit.
I heard it and I let it bother
And I still do my bit!
Sure my childhood was confining
Full of lousy strokes.
Now I am still depressed and whining
Far from my goddamned folks!
Though my past was rather stinking,
I'm now free to roam.
So let me change my nutty thinking
And leave the old folks at home!
If it was a crime back then he would have been serving life.
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Ah, a giant waste of time -AND- a tempest in a teapot, all in one little unconstutional clusterfuck bill. (Notice that we're up to about 100k worth of fines on this page alone!)
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Only 100K? Fuck that shit! Lets get 200K at least people! *Digs up "Freedon of Speech" by Ice-T".
Freedom of Speech, that's some motherfuckin' bullshit
You say the wrong thing, they'll lock your ass up quick
The FCC says "Profanity - No Airplay"?
They can suck my dick while I take a shit all day
Think I give a fuck about some silly bitch named Gore?
Yo PMRC, here we go, raw
Yo Tip, what's the matter? You ain't gettin' no dick?
You're bitchin' about rock'n'roll, that's censorship, dumb bitch
The Constitution says we all got a right to speak
Say what we want Tip, your argument is weak
Censor records, TV, school books too
And who decides what's right to hear? You?
Hey PMRC, you stupid fuckin' assholes
The sticker on the record is what makes 'em sell gold
Can't you see, you alcoholic idiots
The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get
[Verse 2]
[You have the right to remain silent]
Fuck that right! I want the right to talk
I want the right to speak, I want the right to walk
Where I wanna, yell and I'm gonna
Tell and rebel every time I'm on a
Microphone on the stage cold illin'
The knowledge I drop will be heard by millions
We ain't the problems, we ain't the villains
It's the suckers deprivin' the truth from our children
You can't hide the fact, Jack
There's violence in the streets every day, any fool can recognise that
But you try to lie and lie
And say America's some motherfuckin' apple pie
Yo, you gotta be high to believe that
You're gonna change the world by a sticker on a record sleeve
Cos once you take away my right to speak
Everybody in the world's up shit creek
[Verse 3]
Let me tell you about down south
Where a motherfucker might as well not even have a mouth
Columbus, Georgia, said they'd lock me up
If I got on the stage in my show and said "Fuck"
So I thought for a minute and said "No,
I wasn't even gonna do a damned show"
Cos for me to change my words from my rhymes
Is never gonna happen cos there's no sell outs on mine
But I vowed to get those motherfuckers one day
They even arrested Bobby Brown and Cool J
Yo, they got their's comin', cos I'm mad and I'm gunnin'
Homeboys, and there's no runnin'
I'm gonna tell you how I feel about you
No bull, no lies, no slack, just straight fact
Columbus, Georgia, you can suck my dick
You ain't nothin' but a piece of fuckin' shit on the damned map
[Verse 4]
Freedom of Speech, let 'em take it from me
Next they'll take it from you, then what you gonna do?
Let 'em censor books, let 'em censor art
PMRC, this is where the witch hunt starts
You'll censor what we see, we read, we hear, we learn
The books will burn
You better think it out
We should be able to say anything, our lungs were meant to shout
Say what we feel, yell out what's real
Even though it may not bring mass appeal
Your opinion is yours, my opinion is mine
If you don't like what I'm sayin'? Fine
But don't close it, always keep an open mind
A man who fails to listen is blind
We only got one right left in the world today
Let me have it or throw The Constitution away
[Outro (Jello Biafra)]
What they're trying to do with radio, with this, uh, McCarron-Walter
Act and a lot of other ways, is start by saying that they're
protecting the public from wicked rock bands, or girlie magazines, or
whatever. But, if you follow the chain of dominoes that falls down,
what they're really trying to do is shut off our access to information
itself.
If they can't do it by law they know there's other ways to do it.
Probably get cut, but it fits!
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Ladies and gentlemen!
Introducing the Chocolate Starfish!
and the Hotdog Flavored Water
Bring it on!
Get the fuck up!
Yeah!
Check, one, two
Listen up, listen up!
Here we go
It's a fucked up world
A fucked up place
Everybody's judged by their fucked up face
Fucked up dreams
Fucked up life
A fucked up kid
With a fucked up knife
Fucked up moms
And fucked up dads
It's a fucked up a cop
With a fucked up badge
Fucked up job
With fucked up pay
And a fucked up boss
Is a fucked up pain
Fucked up press
And fucked up lies
Well, Lethal's in the back
With the fact of the fires
Hey, it's on
Everybody knows it's on
Hey, it's on
Everybody knows it's on
Ain't it a shame that you can't say "Fuck"
Fuck's just a word
And it's all fucked up
Like a fucked up punk
With a fucked up mouth
A nine inch nail
I'll get knocked the fuck out
Fucked up aids
From fucked up sex
Fake ass titties
On a fucked up chest
We're all fucked up
So whatcha wanna do?
We fucked up me
And fucked up you
You wanna fuck me like an animal
You'd like to burn me on the inside
You like to think that I'm a perfect drug
Just know that nothing you do
Will bring you closer to me
Ain't life a bitch?
A fucked up bitch
A fucked up sore with a fucked up stitch
A fucked up head
Is a fucked up shame
Swinging on my nuts
Is a fucked up game
Jealousy filling up a fucked up mind
It's real fucked up
Like a fucked up crime
If I say "Fuck", two more times
That's forty six "Fucks" in this fucked up rhyme
It's on
Everybody knows it's on
Hey, it's on
Everybody knows it's on
You wanna fuck me like an animal
You'd like to burn me on the inside
You like to think that I'm a perfect drug
Just know that nothing you do
Will bring you closer to me
Hooo Haaa Haaaw!
Listen up baby
You.. can't.. bring.. me.. (bring me).. down
I.. don't.. think.. so
I don't want some
You.. better.. check.. your.. (check it).. self
Before.. you.. wreck.. your.. self
Kiss.. my.. star.. fish
My.. choco.. late.. Starfish.. punk
Kiss.. my.. star.. fish
My.. choco.. late.. Starfish.. punk
You wanna fuck me like an animal
You'd like to burn me on the inside
You like to think that I'm a perfect drug
Just know that nothing you do
Will bring you closer to me
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/shudders
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the sad thing is, if he'd done his history checkup, they've tried to ban things like that for YEARS in the U.S.
that, condoms, pre-marital sex, masturbation, pornography, and anything else that the church and stuckup prudes find offensive to their little minority group.
i watched a nice little documentary on it years ago, and frankly it didn't suprise me one bit, but it also obviously never worked back then, and i doubt it'll work now.
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FUCK THAT.
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I believe that Carlin's poetry is really the only correct response to this
rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat, 69 ass holes tied in a knot, hooray lizard shit, fuck.
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
I would hope that the judge that strikes this as unconstitutional would riddle the document with profanity.
Or, if he choses another path, he could just write at the bottom of the bill "F*&^ this!"
Re: South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Profanity
A law against profanity is itself going too far, but a FELONY? This is one of those moments where a strong, four-letter words are best used.
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It's a scary thing to think that a government official would forget the specifics of the Constitution, even at the state legislative level. That's just fucking ignorant.
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*clears throat, takes sip of water* ahem....FUCK YOU, DUMBASS! *flips him off*