Representative Janice Schmidt (D -Nashua) is the prime sponsor of a bill that would make it a crime if you engaged with public officials electronically and they decided you are a cyberbully. Sharing an email or phone number would be doxxing. But not when they do it. And they do it.
That was Steve’s post here talking about what NH State Reps Francesca Diggs, Janice Schmidt, Debra Altschiller, Sherry Frost, Nancy Murphy, and Wendy Thomas (the bill sponsors) are pushing on preventing “cyberbullying against public officials.”
Social media can be the wild west with words. The rest of the internet is not much different. It can get weird. And it is easy to take things the wrong way. But never fear, we have elected officials coming to the rescue. They have introduced a bill to protect themselves from whatever they decide constitutes cyberbullying.
Francesca Diggs, Janice Schmidt, Debra Altschiller, Sherry Frost, Nancy Murphy, and Wendy Thomas have a legislative Service Request (LSR). The LSR Title is “relative to cyberbullying and cyberstalking of a public servant.”
Apparently, Rep Janice Schmidt does not like it when her words boomerang back wildly placing her on an embarrassingly exposed defense.
My post on Rep Schmidt’s stating “All murders aren’t the same” has gotten her unwanted attention and wedged her into a bind.
WMUR’s Political Director James Pindell picked up on it and added her into “…the long Hall of Shame for dumb comments by New Hampshire representatives over the years for comments…”. Burn.
Oh, what to do, Jan? Why, come up with a specious spot of strategery to get out of this miasma, of course!
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” – Orwell.
“Yes, that is correct… All murders aren’t the same”, responded Representative Janice Schmidt (D) Hillsborough 27 – Nashua to a comment asking her about the comparison of the killings in Newtown and those in the Gosnell trial. She wrote this on a comment to my last blog. The subject of the blog noted how the media covered, or didn’t cover, the two killings.
For those that still do not know about the Gosnell trial, it’s finally breaching the news coverage with its gory and lugubrious details, so I’ll sum it up quickly: it’s about an abortionist, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who allegedly killed women and delivered babies only to, again allegedly, impale them with scissors and snip their spinal cord. The Grand Jury Report stated over the years there were over “hundreds of snippings”. My blog’s point was that the lack of coverage of the Gosnell trial, especially when juxtaposed with the media gusher of the Newtown tragedy, is the product of extreme liberal media bias.
Apparently, I piqued compassionate Janice and she did what Janice does, and sounded off.
“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.” —Don Herold
On Wednesday, March 27 Representative Janice Schmidt (D) Hillsborough 27 – Nashua took to the Londonderry Patch with her local voices entry entitled, HB 135: I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means. Representative Schmidt begins her entry with a supposed letter from a person who is concerned about the lack of ability to defends ones’ self within ones home…