Daft Yanks

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found this article, america gets wosre, cant even take a photo now lol



A new bill in the Florida state legislature would make it a felony for photographers to take pictures of a farm or other property where agricultural operations are being conducted.

Introduced by State Senator Jim Norman, a Republican, the bill is intended to curb the activities of animal rights activists, who take photos and videos of farms for campaign purposes. The bill would apply to all photographers.

The Florida Senate website shows that the bill, SB 1246, has passed its committees and was introduced to the state Senate on 8 March. If passed, it would take effect on 1 July 2011.

The bill states that any person caught entering a farm or agricultural property commits a first degree felony. A first-degree felony in Florida is punishable by up to 30 years in prison, 30 years probation, and a $10,000 fine.

According to the US government, a farm is defined as any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold during the census year.

PhotoRadar searched Florida public records and found that Sen. Norman received $195,297 in donations during his 2010 election campaign, with agricultural, agri-chemical, construction and real estate firms among the top contributors.

Donors included the Farm Bureau Political Action Committee, the Florida Fertilizer & Agrichemical Association, Cirttenden Fruit Co, Dosal Tobacco Corporation, Diversified Environmental Services, Abbott Laboratories, Adrienne Surgarcane Farm, Agro-Industrial Management, Aprile Farms and Fanjul Corp.

of course all those lobyists contributions had no bearing on his polictcal activetys lol
hopefully it wont stop animal welfare people trespassing and reporting the truth if welfare standards arent upheld!