repubicans write a bill against those awful cell phone cameras

Who didn't see this one coming? While his motives seem honorable, the intent is clear...cell phone cameras are bad, especially when you take pictures of your prisoner being tortured.

Congress Looking at 'Video Voyeurism'

WASHINGTON - Cell phone cameras are useful for the unusual moment that demands a picture, like when a congressional aide pulled one out of a pocket to get a snapshot of Michael Jackson strolling the halls of Congress

Some people, however, are using them for nefarious purposes, such as taking pictures beneath women's skirts and posting them on the Internet. Lawmakers want to make taking such surreptitious photos and other illicit uses of video technology a federal crime punishable by up to a year in jail.

"No one should have to go through the embarrassment of being secretly taped by an electronic peeping Tom, or seeing those pictures turn up on the Internet," said Rep. Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, a former FBI (news - web sites) agent who is an advocate for the bill.

While there are no official studies on the intrusive use of camera phones, lawmakers and anti-crime advocates say "video voyeurism" is a serious crime that deserves a serious response by the government.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&e=2&u=/ap/congress_camphones

They have been the most interventionist government for THINGS THAT DO NOT NEED IT.

In fact I got rather annoyed with a co-worked who snapped pictures during lunch. What an invasion of privacy!

Many health clubs ban all cell phones to make sure noone is sneaking a camera phone into the locker room.

it seems like they didn't care about it until those darned torture pictures showed up.

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Hmmm... my, such hypocrites! Tsk. Tsk.

I have to be within a couple of feet to take anything that actually resembles a picture. Long distance cameras they ain't.

Having said that, this gives me yet another reason to laugh at Republican hypocrisy. Will they never stop?

Totalitarians like the Nazis, Commies, and Busheviks only find one crime unethical...GETTING CAUGHT

I'm sure there are individual abuses with camera's but it sounds like they are willing to further invade our rights to document atrocities by limiting camera phones.

I think this technology is particularly important because it allows not only pictures, but the means to transmit the pic instanteneously. It's obvious that immediate pictures can have a far greater impact on public opinion than written reports filed months later....and I think this is another attempt by "small government" Republicans to limit the power of the individual to document the government's abuse and exposing the reality of things that they'd rather keep secret.