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Kicked Out Of Parliament For Looking At A Camera Phone
from the take-that! dept
The latest slap down for daring to pick up a camera phone and (gasp! oh no!) look at it, was over in the UK where an MP was thrown out for checking his phone to see who had called. Someone noticed this, and informed the speaker, who kicked him out of the chamber for "using a camera". Except, he wasn't using the camera. Just looking to see who called. As he points out, if he wanted to use the camera it would be pretty obvious. Once again, you have to wonder why there's so much backlash against just having a camera phone, when the folks involved aren't doing anything bad with at all. Why are we making it a crime to possess tools that have plenty of perfectly good uses - just because there's the potential to misuse it?
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Just because of the potential?
Drug laws are a good example. I'm sure most of us know "casual" marijuana users - people who absolutely cause no harm to anyone (outside of helping to support organized crime, of course). But because the law assumes that they MIGHT start using other drugs, and MIGHT become addicts, thieves, burdens on society, whatever, we have laws.
Plenty of other examples; in fact I bet fear of what MIGHT happen generates more laws than anything else.
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Can everybody say "KazaA"? ;o)
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