Earnest Smith: State government official wants to make lewd Photoshopping a crime after being mocked in a fake picture of a porn star | Mail Online
Imagine if this dumb shyt passes. Wonder if you can pay the fines in coli cash
A Democratic state legislator in Georgia is pushing to make inappropriate use of Photoshop a crime and he was made the victim of such a prank in retaliation.
State Representative Earnest Smith was one of two co-sponsors of a bill to make it a crime if someone Photoshops a person into an obscene picture. He pushed forward with the plan in spite it's the obvious interference with First Amendment rights, and an internet prankster made him the latest target in response.
One of his constituents took a picture of a nude porn star and put Mr Smith's head on top. Rep. Smith needs to grow some thick skin if he's going to be an elected official. Trust me when I say the altered photograph shown above was not the worst I could have done,' prankster Andre Walker said on his blog where he claimed responsibility for the image.
If Smith, and co-sponsor Pam dikkerson, have their way then such an action would result in a $1,000 fine.
Their proposed law would be broken when any 'person commits defamation when he or she causes an unknowing person wrongfully to be identified as the person in an obscene depiction'.
FoxNews.com reports that the bill was first proposed a year ago after a teenage girl was the victim of such an action which prompted the two Democrats to suggest the move.
Now both Mr Smith and Ms dikkerson have had the tables turned on them.
'No one has a right to make fun of anyone. You have a right to speak, but no one has a right to disparage another person. Its not a First Amendment right,' Mr Smith told local news site Savannah Now.
To Mr Walker, who made Mr Smith's Photoshoped image, the politician doesn't even know the half of how bad it could be.
'By the way, I cannot believe Representative Earnest Smith thinks I'm insulting him by putting his head on the body of a well-built porn star.
Imagine if this dumb shyt passes. Wonder if you can pay the fines in coli cash
