What's the Biggest Law Going Into Effect in 2012?

The reason I moved my family out of California...

Stop Online Piracy Act, and National Defense Authorization Act are two extensions of the un-Patriot Act allowing more breaches of the bill of rights. We are becoming more & more Fascist daily. Imagine how the German People just went along with Genocide, and other crimes against humanity committed by the NAZI regime. I have already Informed my Senators (Boxer & Feinstein) I will even vote Republican to replace them if they sign these bills.

Obama just signed the bill the Senators passed it way earlier in December... with only 7 dissenting.

Ron Paul's our only hope. The mainstream Republicans want to remove our protections as much or more as the Democrats. I don't know what's wrong with our elected officials, but it scares the hell out of me. A hell of a lot of people died in our Revolution in order to ensure that we would never have a dictatorship & it's all lost now.
I wonder how Obama sleeps at night.
I wonder how any of those 73 senators sleep at night... or the rest of Congress, for that matter.

"Funny" thing: it could very well be Germany bailing our ass out of the mess being created as we speak. They are more free than we are it this moment. (In fact, I'm glad to live here right now.)

Yep! Those two that you just mentioned make the rest of them listed look like armature hour. Pretty scary because both parties are guilty.

Biggest law, or worst law? This is by far the worst law.

If a motorcyclest can run red lights ok. But when I hit and kill them don't bitch. Requiring permission on abortion means more unreported rape and molestation out of fear.

Do you love it when the government shoves propaganda down your throat? I don't!

When I 1st read that one about motorcycles in IL, I was WTF, but the law does make sense believe it or not. The cyclist still has to stop at the red light, but due to some triggers at lights are not sensitive enough to register turning light green with the weight of a motorcycle, the motorcyclist is given the judgment call if sufficient time has passed and it's safe to proceed through the light. It does make sense if your a biker and experienced what this law is talking about. If your a biker, you've probably gone through those red lights before as I have. Now it's actually legal.

This post should read" What is the biggest DUMB law going into effect." Anyway, I meant to hit OTHER...but now I will have to edit.
Illinois must have lost their minds...what sort of numbskulls say it is OK for anything to run a red light, and "when it's safe"....People already have a hard time mentally processing a motorcycle when they are driving as it is, there is going to be nothing but carnage strewn about the streets from this stupid, stupid law. There are going to be some bad accidents, higher insurance rates for everyone, due to the accidents, people are going to be killed or injured for life, mostly the motorcycles riders, but people in cars as well, Has anyone ever driven in the City of Chicago, it is insane,,,I sincerely hope all motorcycle riders use their heads and NEVER for any reason, run a red light...the lawmakers must have been taking bong hits to approve something sooo stupid, Wake Up Illinois..

A motorcyclist has to be one of the most aware drivers on the road, this law actually does make sense if you bother to check what the law is about. If it's a busy intersection in Chicago, I would assume a car will trip the light, if that is even needed at a busy intersection in Chicago. It's the cage drivers you need to worry about, bikers are generally smart enough to make the right judgment call about a stupid red light that doesn't trigger. Read my post above this one to explain the law a little bit before getting your panties ruffled.

Point taken, and I know long time riders are more than extra careful, because they know they are a minority on the road. I would assume that bikers would be the only one sitting at a light that would not trigger since no larger vehicle is there to trip it. I guess from the bikers point of view it is good, but I still feel it would be better to perhaps recalibrate the signals. Would this law also apply to bicycle riders in the street who might also find themselves in this position??? Or would it not, because they do not have to have their mode of transportation registered or have a license plate.

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I was tempted to vote for the child rape law in Texas, however . . .

In various Republican states, laws have been put in place in the past few years that aim at preventing the poor, blacks and other minorities, the elderly, students--those in our society most like to vote for Obama later this year--from voting at all!

The mainstay of these new laws is a government-issued identification card at polling places. That's fine for us with driver's licenses--but not to OK with inner city sorts who don't own cars, struggling survivors out in the countryside, or elderly widows who use public transportation. In Texas, for instance, an ID card of a college student is no good--but a gun license is.

This is messing with a basic freedom much greater than the poorly-applied Second Amendment and other considerations. It's been going on for some time, with more-rabid conservative legislators eagerly jumping aboard across the company. There was a ray of light recently when the courts overturned the version of the law in South Carolina, a state that appears to flaunt its racism.

What a wonderful example you provide for the term "Brain Stem" thinker. The half a dozen or so people who don't have an ID, well ain't that a shame. How do those elderly get social security, medicare, food stamps, housing assistance, utility assistance, taxpayer paid cell phones, and the dozens of other benefits provided at the TaxPayer's expense? Students? LMAO ya big dummy. How do students (I'm assuming you mean college aged) register and pay for (if they even do) schooling? BTW, the "elderly" as a demographic are Far Far less likely to live below the poverty line than children. Please go away with your sheeple bleating.

You're incredibly rude.
I'd wager you're another shining example of our public school system.

The socio-economic status, skin color or place of residence of a US citizen is not important in our electoral process. EVERY US citizen has the right to vote, without question or prohibition. That is one of the most important aspects of our nation that separates us from others. Anything that inhibits or prohibits a citizen from voting is unconstitutional... not to mention incredibly & deeply un-American.
If you think otherwise, perhaps you carry the wrong passport. I hear there's a gap in the marching parade in North Korea.

the new united states is unconstitutional. I say no id no vote!!!!

Let me zee your paperz!
Sounds pretty Stazi to me.

better than letting legals vote. Besides it's beginning to be that way in America now anyway and if Obama gets in another term we all are in trouble because America will continue to fall.

If ANY of those awful yayhoos get into office our nation will continue to fall.

They're all dangerous.

You wrote: "The socio-economic status, skin color or place of residence of a US citizen is not important in our electoral process."

Sir where are you every evening? At ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer or a dozen other pathetic mouth puppets and fluffers for a pig sty of fatuous greedy politicians stealing every bobble ever created and once belonging to us, the People. The TaxPayer. The lowest class of people in America today is the TaxPayer. Wake the F up your and yours are destroying our lives and yours.

It might be rude on the surface, but it is uttered with absolute sincerity and I lament that such drivel is considered intellectual when it is a mantra poured into so many hungry beaks day after week after month and year. I can't stomach it.

So, in other words, you believe that only white, educated, middle-upper class men living in single-family dwellings that they own should be able to vote?
Is that what you're saying?
Does it matter if he's Catholic or Protestant? What if he's Jewish?

You think that the poor, old, black woman who's worked her entire life for someone else, lives in a rented apartment in a poor neighborhood, was born & raised on US soil has no right to vote?

Huh.
Sounds like you'd be happier living in jolly old England in about 1600.

Get with it, man! This is 2012 in the United States of America! Socio-economic status, skin color, religion & place of residence is not important.
You think that because I, a citizen born & raised in the continental US, have no right to vote in our election(s) because I live in Germany? You think I have no right to say who governs me & my family just because I make my living overseas? What about military personnel stationed overseas?

Racists & classists, though equal under protection of the law, are really loathsome losers with the mentality of those our founding fathers ran away from.

You have one of the two major parties whose axiom for successful governace is to use race, creed, color, and other's Christianity, as well as a new wildly AntiAmerican screed that the TaxPayers are dirt under the feet of the so called poor. All as a means of dividing groups primarily by race and ethnicity. I don't know how to even respond to someone that would deny the truth of the above statement. Racial animosity R US is Obama's Motto. Get real

You're the one who said, "How do those elderly get social security, medicare, food stamps, housing assistance, utility assistance, taxpayer paid cell phones, and the dozens of other benefits provided at the TaxPayer's expense?" while discussing the viability of voters.
Seems to me that you're the one who thinks no one should vote who doesn't fit into your idea of "American."
Now you want to say that it's "governace," (whatever that is).

It seems to me that you're generally a bit confused.

Have the Congress and the President all taken leave of their senses? The National Defense Authorization Act, which effectively nullifies several parts of the Bill of Rights takes the cake. I only pray that the Supreme Court nullifies this travesty. Since the selection of W, I'm not holding my breath.

One Million thumbs up! But look above at Tom and you'll understand why this nation is nearing dictatorship having to hand feed the alleged weak and dispossessed of the neosocialist thugs of America.

Good for New Hampshire...Can't give a child a immunization without authorizing it. But abortion. Well come on in. Parents rights be damned.....

Really? Still jamming it down our throats. Don't want it, don't need it. Keep it to yourselves. Don't expect me to welcome any LGBT ever.

This is kind of an old law, but Breed Specific Legislation in any area just pisses me off. You take away my dog and I'll beat you so bad you will wish you were dead, it's as simple as that. You leave my dog alone, I'll try to keep my tire tracks off your face. This is all.

Restricting a woman's access to abortion? Really?

It's not for a women, it for a child having a child. Really!

It's probably better for a teen to abort, considering that fact that most are not able to support a baby, but hey, if she wants to have the child then let her. She shouldn't be forced to have the baby if she doesn't want to, though.

if she don't want a baby she should be having sex should she? And if she is under 18 she shouldn't be having sex any way!

Rape?

Wake up. It is going to happen whether you like it or not.

Parents cooperate with God in bringing forth life. Because this whole process is under God’s dominion, it is sinful to interrupt it. (Amos 1:13).

Not everyone believes in God, and deciding it's best for a child to not be born in the first place to save it from a cruel life is not in anyway disrupting anything.

YEP!

Abortion is wrong and should be illegal. because it's MURDER!!!!!!

You say it's murder, but very many don't, why bring an unwanted baby into this world. In the case of a minor, no matter what the situation, it was more than likely a big mistake. Abortion needs to be a freedom of choice. If it's not your choice, good for you, but if it's someone elses choice, who is anyone to call it murder.

ABORTION IS MURDER!!!!!!!! their are way to many good people out there who would love to adopt that murdered child because they can't have one of their own. there is no excuse for abortion and any one who preforms one or has one should be put in jail for the rest of their life for committing murder!!!!!