We're So Free We Can't Swear in Writing

I hear a lot of politicians talking about how free we are.

Really?

Take for instance this CNN.com story that Pennsylvania police filed disorderly conduct charges because a man used the "F word" on the memo line of a $5 check he used to pay a parking ticket.

Yes, yes, that's the sound of the First Amendment rolling over in its grave.

Seriously, people?

The F word?

Is this f*%$ing kindergarten?

A very large group of people need to read Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience!

There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly (p. 388).

Luckily for this guy, he did not say "Don't tase me, bro" on the memo line.

Sadly, he caved and apologized before the case went to trial, so the cops dropped the charge.

I hope that a bunch of constitutionally minded young people are currently looking for expired meters in Doylestown, Pa., as we speak.