TYT: Fucking Ridiculous Fine for Swearing

[The Northerner]

If you swear in public in Middleborough, Massachusetts you can expect to be fined. Is cussing protected under free speech? Should the ACLU get involved? Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss this bullshit on The Young Turks.

Read more here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-12/middleborough-swearing-fine/55542416/1


Instead of banning swearing why couldn't they have just banned hate speech instead?

That would have been more acceptable and reasonable.

[MADem]

1. We covered this over in Weird News last week!

Twenty dollar fine...and I'll bet the ACLU will hop on this before too long...if anyone gets a ticket, anyway.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11031286

[stanleyyelnatsdotCOM]

7. stay away from my front yard...

these good folk wouldn't want to be in my front yard when I'm working in the yard.

put my fat ass in prison!

[MADem]

8. You'd just get a ticket with a twenty buck fine! nt

[struggle4progress]

2. Mass. attorney general to look at cursing fine

June 17, 2012

MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass.—Police in Middleborough won't be able to write tickets for swearing in public until the state attorney general's office determines if the new bylaw is constitutional.

That process could take months, and at least one person thinks the new bylaw might not go into effect.

Selectman Stephen McKinnon tells The Enterprise of Brockton that his gut feeling is that the attorney general won't pass the bylaw. He says good behavior and common courtesy can't be legislated ...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/06/17/mass_attorney_general_to_look_at_cursing_fine/

[anon-y-moose]

3. define swearing! in english,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity

vete a la mierda gilipollas!

vá se foder idiota !

去他媽的自己屁眼

לך תזדיין אידיוט
ذهب نفسك اللعنة الأحمق

[Blue Owl]

4. Welcome to Middleborough -- Say Vagina and We'll Fine 'Ya

n/t

[earthbone]

5. Stupid!

How would you enforce that law ?

[DemzRock]

6. Those fargin bastages!

Bunch of iceholes!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. I guess they wanna go back in time....

[HopeHoops]

10. "C U Next Tuesday"

Okay, I'll admit it. I'd never heard that line before. That's FUNNY! So I guess they won't be having any stand-up comics in Middleborough, not that it's large enough to attract one in the first place.