There is nothing free about this country
 

Originally posted on Fox News:

Georgia House Votes for Genital-Piercing Ban

Thursday, March 25, 2004

ATLANTA ? Genital piercings for women were banned by the Georgia House Wednesday as lawmakers considered a bill outlining punishments for female genital mutilation (search).



The bill would make such mutilation punishable by two to 20 years in prison. It makes no exception for people who give consent to have the procedure performed on their daughters out of religious or cultural custom.

An amendment adopted without objection added "piercing" to the list of things that may not be done to female genitals. Even adult women would not be allowed to get the procedure. The bill eventually passed 160-0, with no debate.

Amendment sponsor Rep. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, was slack-jawed when told after the vote that some adults seek the piercings.

"What? I've never seen such a thing," Heath said. "I, uh, I wouldn't approve of anyone doing it. I don't think that's an appropriate thing to be doing."

The ban applies only to women, not men. The bill has already been approved by the Senate but now must return to that chamber because of the piercing amendment (search). Both chambers of the Legislature must agree on a single version of a bill before it can go to the governor for final approval.

Next thing we know, they're gonna ban gay marriages.

OH, wait, they did that.

this country is fucked up.... "freedom" is just an illusion.

Incredible! All of the freedoms we have are slowly but surely being taken away from us. As adults, we should be able to stick a peice of rebar through our asses and not one single government agency should have the power to stop us. :mad:

STOP THE INSANITY!!!!

packing my bags right now for Canada:winkwink:

Get those republican nuts out of power already.

good stuff we can stick anything in there up here :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Totally Insane:ak47: Shook my head in disbelief when I first heard about it

Why do people keep re-electing polititians who make make decisions without the slightest effort to investigate what they are ruling on?

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Amendment sponsor Rep. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, was slack-jawed when told after the vote that some adults seek the piercings.
"What? I've never seen such a thing," Heath said.
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...Someone needs to send Rep. Bill Heath to http://www.bmezine.com/ and ask him what other in the dark head up ass laws he'd like to make.

Maybe a bunch of us, can get a group rate on a canada move lol.

viva la revolution :thumbsup

That issue is so funny to me. Gay Marriage has ALWAYS been illegal in the US, and in 1997, Clinton signed the Defence of Marriage Act, that meant that even if some states decided to make it legal....other states would not have to recognise it.


Why does everyone think that this just happened? You guys are such slaves to anti-bush propaganda:2 cents:

Will piercing be banned only in Georgia or the whole country?

3rd thread started on this topic?

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When I lived in Amsterdam I fell in love with their philosophy. They believe that you can do anything you want to yourself just don't put anyone else in harms way.

In other words, you can sit in a street alley on heroine if you want but if you drink and drive you are getting locked the fuck up.

Brilliant.

Maybe so, but it is the first one started by me.

Yet another reason, that our system needs a tune up....

I say take evderything to a populas vot, every single item.... vote yes or no..... no amendments....everything stands on its own straight across the board on all levels....


here is the issue (if a combination of issues then break them out into individual issues) and vote YES or No plain and simple
majority vote rules....

you don't like the outcome? then you can always move to a state that shares your interests....

Does that make it special? :glugglug

Pretty sickening.

Its only legal for parents who would mutilate their daughters genitals for religious purposes???

so very twisted...

Land of the free...er...almost free...er...screw it! Land period!

I think it say NO acception to the rule. Even for religious purpose.
Maybe i should read again.

In short, he didn't ban gay marriages. The act is about letting some states do what they want. I thought this is how it always was in the US. Don't you have some states who ban alcohol on Sundays and others that don't?

Hey are they going to ban male circumcision too?

Or will that only be okay to do to little newborn baby boys?

chop chop to the pee pees, but only in the name of god...

hmm I misread something somewhere else then I think.. my bad

Americans are the first to think that they should be free and the first to say that what he/she is doing should be illegal.

Relax everyone, you are all free to do as you please...just dont step out of line too much ok?
please turn your televisons back on, Freedom can now resume....

http://data.blogg.de/thorte/images/adolf_bush_gruss.jpg

:1orglaugh

the similarity to hitler is very amazing....

hitler: protect the motherland

bush: protect the homeland

a little flag changing, and some grapihic work and you will have the same person.....

Lappy top on a beach in Coast Rica is sounding even more real than ever!!!

See ya later...USA...damn..never thought I would say that, but its getting so fucked!

Mike hawk

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Amen,

Things sure are getting fucked up here in the USofA....:(

its sad when a personof sane mind can't do whatever they want as long as it doesn't affect anyone else:(

These idiots are voting on things they have no knowledge of. This is disgusting and it should be a requirement. The piercing is far from mutilation and it's pretty much the woman's decision to get it.

As far as the piercing itself: Can women possess them in GA, or is that illegal as well? If so, the women can just cross the border, pierce it and sit naked/spread eagle on the steps of city hall! :thumbsup

No actually nthere is a nasty gang of people that kidnap innocent women and force them to have this done. The they let them go.


:321GFY

exactly... or just what the jerkoff's in DC think is right..

:mad:

Are the majority of you people honestly this stupid?

And most of you people called me fucken nuts when I said Bush is similer Hitler...

Now its becomming Cliche:1orglaugh

In 1929, the USA was sold to the bankers.

Everything Thomas Jefferson intended was instantly destroyed.


nuff said.

Yesterday there was some protestors in Iraq holding a sign "Bush = Sadam". You think you know better than they do?

agreed, we can also get rid of Congress

...it is REALLY not as necessary now that we have this Interweb and the techology to allow (almost) EVERY CITIZEN to vote on shit weekly or monthly....before Congress was needed primarily because not all the 'people' could be heard at the top for logistical reasons...



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Direct democracy would be worse than representative democracy, imo. Most voters are terribly uneducated about the issues they are votiing on (myself included, to be honest). I'm not at all comfortable with the idea of all legislation coming down to a popularity contest; under a direct democracy, anyone on the margins of "social acceptability" would be even more screwed than they are now.

I'm not sure who originally said it, but it's a great line: "Democracy is the assumption that more than half the people are right more than half the time."

- Q.

Fucking stupid

I'd have to agree with you, the previous statement was a knee(mouth?)jerk response...

Congress just pisses me off at times, what I WOULD like to see more of is a 'leash' on their asses so they know they can get fired pretty much whenver they piss off their constituents who they are supposed to be representing....ie a 'recall' leash on them....


sure there is potential for abuse of that, however I prefer to be the abuser than the abused....

un fucking believable...i cant even believe that

WTF does congress have to do with the state house in GA passing a bill that is not law?

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good start for me 'eh

I'm not moving to canada untill they take over that island in the caribbean :Graucho

is this the result of genital piercing?
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=258378

Freeeeedom????????????? Yeaaaaahh, Right.