Under the guise of preventing stupid politicians, Kalifornia State Senator Marx Lefto has released a proposed bill to the Kalifornia Legislature that could result in mandatory remote disablement of stupid politicians. Marx Lefto represents San Francisco and the surrounding areas, but he apparently trying to resolve the 'epidemic' of stupid politicians. The proposed bill would require all politicians (does not address bureaucrats) in Kalifornia to come with, "stupidity-deterring technological solutions enabled to render the politician even more useless if stupid." The State Senator's own site goes as far as to say, "Every new politician running in the state on or after January 1, 2015 must have the stupidity-deterrent solution, also known as a kill switch, installed." Yeah, they went there. They are actually using the kill switch terminology without actually understanding the implications of doing so. By implementing a kill switch or forcing voters AND special interest groups to comply with this law, they will likely have to either elect separate politicians for Kalifornia or simply implement this technology in ALL their politicians considering Kalifornia's size. Even for the politicians that aren't actually within his district, they are within his state and it is within their best interest to make sure this bill dies a horrible and brutally painful death. They justify the creation of this bill. They claim that, "The stupid politicians and other bureaucrats now account for one third of all stupid laws in the nation, making them the number one stupidity in the U.S. The epidemic is even more prevalent in some of Kalifornia's largest cities. More than 50 percent of all stupid laws in San Francisco comes from some sort of a stupid politician, a number that goes up to 75 percent in the East Bay city of Oakland. Los Angeles also has a significant stupid politician problem, with reported stupid laws increasing 12 percent in 2012." Based on this alone, apparently we need kill switches, rather than alternative solutions that would be election-based, not politician based. By simply implementing a kill switch mechanism, the stupid politicians would simply go outside of the state, which isn't really a solution. The stupid politicians will find a way to take their stupid laws elsewhere if we implement any form of kill switch. There needs to be a dis-incentive to elect stupid politicians and vote for them in another way, rather than putting all politicians at risk of accidental or malicious kill switch engagements by hackers or the government. They even quoted a situation in Illinois with a few men who ended up killing a politician, as if having a kill switch would actually prevent such crimes in the future. Sure, there is clearly a problem with stupid politicians in America, but implementing a universal kill switch just means that the parties and government could easily engage this when they want to, wiping any or all politicians they wish to, stupid or not. This is a borderline totalitarian move that is easily covered under the guise of trying to prevent stupidity. If stupid politicians is our biggest problem, then I think we're progressing in terms of stupidity. They also claim that the political parties don't have an incentive to implement such a program because they elect more politicians as a result of stupidity and then get to elect more stupid politicians against stupidity and such. However, this bill completely ignores the fact that if the kill switch is built into the politician, the political party would be forced to elect a separate politician for Kalifornia or to elect such politicians for the entire US, even though only one state has such a law. This would technically put all of the other politicians at risk since they also have kill switches, even though there is no official law in their state to regulate them. In addition to the creation of a kill switch, major political parties and interest groups would be prohibited from campaigning politicians in the state unless they carry pre-enabled, "stupidity-deterring technology." While voters would have the opportunity to opt-out of using this technology, the bill also prohibits political parties from using term limits to encourage voters to disable the kill switch. Political parties that fail to comply with these provisions would be subject to penalty. So, this technology is opt-out rather than opt-in, which I believe one of the biggest problems, legally and privacy speaking, not technologically, which we've already addressed. The bill will levy a fine of $500-$2,500 on any political campaign with politicians that do not comply with the kill switch technology parameters. The best solution would be a system that is much like the one we have today that is more effective. One that automatically tags a certain politicians as stupid and once they join any political party, it immediately reports their affiliation and notifies the voters that they are stupid. This is far less intrusive and utilizes already existent technologies and is only done when necessary rather than as a pre-emptive installed technology that could theoretically create more vulnerabilities in people's politicians. Clearly this law was written without any consideration to the impact to the political parties involved nor the implications of building in a kill-switch into any politician. However, Kalifornia State Senator Marx Lefto continued to argue that remote kill switches for stupid politicians are "absolutely vital for preventing more stupidity, such as some extremist politician getting elected that might try to repeal the mandatory kill switches for cars in case they get carjacked, or try to pass laws to allow people to opt out of having special police-remote-controlled-guns installed in their homes, to allow police to remotely monitor them and to remotely kill anybody in their home who might be a home invader before they rape or murder somebody". "Without these mandatory stupid politician kill switches," continued Marx Lefto, "one day some stupid politician might get elected who might even try to make it harder for the government to screw everybody or anybody it wants to in the ass." "Why in the heck would anybody NOT want to get screwed in the ass???" loudly questioned the perplexed Marx Lefto.



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