There is a bill before the Alaska Legislature this session to stiffen the laws governing Internet crime. From the brief synopsis I was able to get hold of, it is mostly meant to protect children from predators and all people from financial scams. It also raises protections for senior citizens making us sound like feeble minded idiots. One of the supposed crimes the bill wants to protect us older folks from is "sexting," that process of sending racy messages back and forth between cell phones (which is not exactly Internet, but hints at the mentality behind the bill). Wait just one minute. I do not want to be protected from sexting. As a matter of fact I was looking forward to it when other things have given out, I am drooling in a wheelchair at the Pioneer home and it is the one thing left that will get the blood going. The arrogance of the young is amazing. I really don't think i was that way, but who remembers back that far (hope you caught that). Perhaps it will finally be the protest that gets me a night in jail, not exactly the protest that led Henry David Thoreau to Civil Disobedience, but it will have to do. I can almost see the perp roll (wheelchair, remember): looking for the handicapped entrance to the jail, screaming for my cell phone, slight lifting of the blanket over my lap, a leftover from the crime (one can only hope) and going to jail for the rights of geriatric sexters everywhere.
Rock on brothers and sisters. Take it to the man and woman.
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