Florida Republicans want to make it a felony to take a photo of a farm.

[stevenleser]

In this latest installment of Republican/Teabagger wingnuttery, Florida Republicans want to make it a felony to take a picture of a farm. Why? Because:

"The specific freedom-enhancing element of this particular initiative is that apparently freedom-hating animal rights activists have been known to secretly document farm activities in order to advance socialism."

http://fltrib.com/photographing-cows-or-other-farm-scenery-could-land-you-jail-under-senate-bill

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. That's just plain insane.

[stevenleser]

4. That's our countrymen on the opposite side of the aisle. :-(

These are really folks that should be nowhere near the control of a country, or machinery for that matter.

[Renew Deal]

2. Daddy, daddy, lets stop and look at the cows.

OK, Timmy.
Lets take a picture with the cows.
Click click

All of a sudden: HANDS IN THE AIR. THIS IS THE POLICE. DROP THE WEAPON!

:rofl:

[damntexdem]

3. Out nutting the animal-rights idiots.

The GOP -- every bit as bad as PETA, but with more power.

[asjr]

5. What if the farmer wants to take a

picture of Babe enjoying a beautiful sunset? Will the Repubs go after him?

[usregimechange]

6. Eh, what?

[dkofos]

7. What are they afraid we will catch them doing now??

Sexually abusing farm animals.

[varkam]

8. That's what we need -- more felonies!

We don't incarcerate enough folks, especially not in Florida!

[VoteProgressive]

12. LOL

[Canuckistanian]

15. Everything has to be a felony with them

Fines? Bah! Citations? PFFF!

Send them all to our shiny new jail!

[Turbineguy]

9. Farm activities?

Oh I get it! Republicans having sex with animals. Quite frankly, I would not want to see pictures of that either.

[struggle4progress]

10. Nothing is so rage-inducing as the sight of someone photographing a farm!

And I think we really need to stop people from taking pictures at scenic overlooks: hasn't anybody else noticed how many foreigners bring cameras to US tourist sites?

[Ron Green]

11. Florida again.

:crazy:

[Kolesar]

13. Ohio has laws like this

agribusiness gets whatever it wants from the Ohio legislature

[Kennah]

14. A GMO protection bill?

[HopeHoops]

16. There's only one reason - to prosecute people for undercover factory farm filming.

Florida has some of the most disgusting and stomach-churning shit going on in their factory farms. Of course, those same farms are HAPPY to pay off their Republican politicians to support this bill so that "animal rights" sorts will be discouraged from infiltrating their obscene operations to expose the tragic abuse of animals to the rest of the world. It has nothing to do with "landscapes".

[flvegan]

18. ...and puppy mills or any other animal enterprise out there.

Sadly enough, if it does pass and it forces folks like HSUS, PETA, et al to stop infiltrating, all it will do is push the practice underground. Folks will continue to do it, just different kinds of folks. The kind of folks that, as I understand it, steal the animals and break all kinds of shit on the way out.

[HopeHoops]

20. I doubt the puppy mills are pumping as money into the GOP, but yes, you are correct.

They don't want people knowing how they abuse animals. Meat isn't just murder, it is torture in many cases (but I'll admit that it isn't all).

[DeadEyeDyck]

22. right after I graduated HS I did IT support at a poultry plant

in panhandle florida. My dad was actually in charge of security there and that is how I got the job. They had strick rules about photography in the plant.
Every access had signs posted, "No cameras allowed - Even on Cell Phones"

Workers could bring them in but had to lock them in their lockers. A couple of workers were caught taking pictures (of each other) and got off with warnings.

The rationale was twofold. The first being video from Peta types.
But they were also concerned with corporate espionage. It seems that one company is always trying to steal design ideas from another.

But then I had video tapes of the entire plant :)

[Darth_Kitten]

17. might cause the chickens to stampede.

:)

[tallahasseedem]

19. I bet they'd let them...

take picures when the Republicans are trying to fake their "cowboy" image to get elected.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

21. lol