No iPod for you, or "It's good for you, stupid!" (Part III)

Well, here they go again! Behold our retarded "protect the public from themselves" politicians doing their thing:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers who blithely cross the street listening to an iPod or talking on a cell phone could soon face a $100 fine.

New York State Sen. Carl Kruger says three pedestrians in his Brooklyn district have been killed since September upon stepping into traffic while distracted by an electronic device. In one case bystanders screamed "watch out" to no avail.

Kruger says he will introduce legislation on Wednesday to ban the use of gadgets such as Blackberry devices and video games while crossing the street.

"Government has an obligation to protect its citizenry," Kruger said in a telephone interview from Albany, the state capital. "This electronic gadgetry is reaching the point where it's becoming not only endemic but it's creating an atmosphere where we have a major public safety crisis at hand."

Tech-consuming New Yorkers trudge to work on sidewalks and subways like an army of drones, appearing to talk to themselves on wireless devices or swaying to seemingly silent tunes.

"I'm not trying to intrude on that," Kruger said. "But what's happening is when they're tuning into their iPod or Blackberry or cell phone or video game, they're walking into speeding buses and moving automobiles. It's becoming a nationwide problem."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070207/tc_nm/newyork_ipod_dc_2

If cars as a means of transportation were introduced today, our "protective" government wouldn't allow that.

Think about it -- you are going 65 miles an hour in a steel box powered by explosive liquids, while pedestrians and other suiciders like you have virtually no protection from you, should you decide to plow into them.

That's unsafe, isn't it? Can't have that...

What I am trying to say is: What the fuck?

Whatever happened to personal responsibility and why said responsibility is slowly being replaced by government mandate? Why should anyone give a shit about three morons who, in the best traditions of natural selection, were dumb enough to step into an oncoming truck while listening to music?

I swear to God, this country is becoming a jello-like mess of infantile adult crybabies unable to own up to anything.

Or so "they" want us to think...

Say "A-a-a-a-a"

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Peace on Earth, or screw peaceniks

This guy refused to deploy to Iraq.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/46660B31-772A-45A1-A2B3-E176923F9B32.htm

I am not a military man, but even I know that a military man doesn't get to choose the deployments he goes on to. His ass belongs to Uncle Sam, pure and simple.

I can't say I support the war, especially how it was sold to us, but fuck this guy for downing the morale at the time of war, and fuck those "peacenik" idiots who undermine their own military by supporting what is basically a mutiny.

The fact that this article appears on al-Jazeera is not helping either. I bet they are happy to see our own fifth column cheer for this guy.