That laser pointer you got cause it was just harmless fun, or cool consumer technology, or a useful pointing device just got a lot more dangerous. No, not as an actual threat to safety or anyone's wellbeing, its just not worth the risk of one day having to defend yourself in court. The House wants laser shiners to spend 5 years in jail if they hit a plane with the beam. Just another example of a social phenomenon, granted a mildly unacceptable one, being trumped up in the name of anti-terrorism. We refuse to live in fear of random and senseless acts of violence; so we'll just enact laws to make every conceivable threat a terrorist act. That way no one will act out because everyone is afraid of getting thrown into Guantanamo by our own government. That's the ticket.
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