California lawmaker surprised to find genre of music cannot be outlawed

Fiona Ma, the legislator proposing the bill, came off slightly incoherent, Lee Liu (sp?) seemed to have a reasonable assessment of the ramifications of the law and the events.

My cynical self suggests that Fiona was proposing legislation for the sake of getting her name in the public awareness around a popular topic, whereas Lee Liu just fundamentally understood the issue, and is likely a much more effective harm reduction advocate.

Idiot lawmaker over-reacts and writes law telling kids to get off her lawn, pull up pants.

“I believe with the new secretary, the new people appointed to these boards, more sophistication in terms of what raves are, the safer they will be,” Ma said. “Can’t wear gloves with lights, you can’t walk around with stuffed animals.”

Yes, let's save another 1 in 100000 lighted-glove, stuffed animal-related death.

I hate busybodies.

The questions they should be asking:

- Where were the girls parents in all this? - Is this a problem we can solve through education, rather than by creating more restricting laws?

Instead, they go down the typical path of denying personal responsibility and creating unenforceable laws. I, for one, would be personally offended if that assemblywoman was getting any part of her salary from my taxes.

And if some kid OD'ed on ecstasy inside a school (I'll bet that's already happened), would she want to make running a school a crime?