While the State of Michigan is in an economic depression, and Detroit has a $300 million deficit, some city council members in Michigan came up with a brilliant idea. The Brighton City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance allowing police in the Livingston County community to ticket and fine anyone who is annoying in public "by word of mouth, sign or motions."

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First of all, 99% of the complaints are going to be Unconstitutional. Political speech is almost always "annoying." If it weren't annoying to some people, there would be an overall consensus on the issue, and there would be no reason to express one's political views about the topic.

Second, now financial resources for the police and prosecutors are going to be wasted on malcontents who are hypersensitive to being annoyed. I could think of 1000 other better ways for law enforcement to serve the people.

In fact, the only explanation for this idea is that these people all went to college. It say this because only in college would people be taught the value of not being controversial or offensive. Everywhere else, however, common sense seems to rule the day.

UPDATE: Here is my latest video on this.



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