The Legislature is back on session......

[cmj8591]

I'm sorry but that sounds a bit like the logic anti-gun people use. Yes, you are a pervert to want a child sex doll but to automatically make the leap that the owner of one would violate a child is a bit like saying gun owners will eventually murder someone.

What people do behind closed doors is none of my business so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. And if it's none of my business, it's none of the government's business either. Do child molesters deserve the death penalty? In extreme cases, yes. Does someone molesting a Barbie doll deserve the same? I don' thin so Lucy!

When we start legislating what inanimate objects a person can have based on how we think people should behave, we start heading down a slippery slope from which there is no return. No matter how repulsive you think it may be, the thought process which drives this kind of thing can be applied to any object. If we adopt that thought process, what stops them from applying it to religious items or artistic expression? And this is even worse because it seeks to control what someone does in private. No matter what you might think about this, it needs to be challenged. Back in the pre woke day, the ACLU would have been all over it. You are right, This smells like the whole anti gun toy gun argument.

 

[CH4]

Seems this legislator is building his/her resume for national office.

 

[Dave.357]

Strange and Sick world we live in.

 

[taz666]

How do you determine the age of a doll?

"Use-By" date?

 

[Puller]

Legislatures and blow up dolls . . . how is this not automatically a political thread.

 

[jeffrefrig]

A lady's sister from my last employer worked in a dept. store and she found one of those half-mannequin "models" in a dressing room that had been violated. I don't know the outcome of that one, but she said it made her sick. And frightened this person was actually walking among the living. "Strange and Sick world we live in." Dave.357......."It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack..."

 

[Doug M.]

Fundamentally decent people have no idea the level of disgusting behavior we in the system see. I spent years in the criminal side of our office and then another one nearby before I came back to the civil side of ours. It is frankly a miracle of self-restraint that people working on this kind of stuff do not go bananas/full vigilante. I still sometimes assist our criminal division as much of my work is CJ civil stuff (SO, Probation (both adult and juvenile),the courts and de facto our criminal division). The biggest single piece of my work is public records stuff, so I read a lot of reports that no one else in my division sees.

We have a fairly new receptionist, nice youngster who is about the right age to be my grandkid. One of her jobs is to get all the inbound reports and route them to the right parts of the office. She will never look at people the same way again. She is also developing the same sense of humor the rest of us have. She free admits that she laughs at stuff now about which she would've been appalled just a few months ago.

When one considers the types of people who get prosecuted as "diaper snipers" (a term JD Delay uses), they do not often match the stereotype of a dirty old man (or woman). They look like normal decent people until ones learns of their behavior.

 

[LVSteve]

Sometimes well-meaning elected officials feel as though they have to "do something"...

Ah yes, do-something-itis, it's a major pandemic in the 21st century.

I agree with the other comments that such a bill needs to be extremely tightly defined lest it become a vehicle for more bills on other subjects nearer to our hobbies.

There is nothing as dangerous as badly written law. Trouble is, in my 25+ years in this country, I've rarely seen any legislation written at any level of governance that didn't have openings for the legislators' lawyer buddies to make money. Sorry, Caje.

 

[CalifEd]

"It's a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack..."

I think of that often.
You might say it is an unofficial song in my world.

 

[WCCPHD]

Judge Gideon J Tucker, in 1886, wrote in a decision on a legal malpractice claim against a deceased lawyer's estate:

"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session."

 

[bullmack]

A rep in our state legislature (WA) penned a bill to outlaw humorous roadside signs and reader boards. Allegedly they were a distraction to motorists!

 

[britbike1]

MN

In Minnesota we refer to our legislature as the state home for the terminally bewildered.

 

[jkmo]

It's a start

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

As we say on this side of the Sabine: The legislature is back in session. and many a village is now missing their idiot.

 

[riverrat38]

Legislatures and blow up dolls . . . how is this not automatically a political thread.

Could it be that there is no "element of partisanship"?
Only elements of disgust!

73,
Rick

 

[steelslaver]

When our state government is in session, the amount of liquor sales more than doubles in the state capital, which explains a lot.

 

[cmj8591]

When our state government is in session, the amount of liquor sales more than doubles in the state capital, which explains a lot.

I had a really witty response about some Mass politicians and alcohol but after I posted it and re read it, there was no way it would survive a gig. I guess you will just have to use your imagination.