The War
on Muffshots
Sam Aurelius Milam III
On
November 10, Inside Edition ran a piece about women who're aghast upon
learning that men will discreetly follow them on the street and secretly
point hidden video cameras up their skirts. I don't know where those
women have been, but men have been peeking up women's skirts and down women's
blouses for as long as women have been wearing skirts and blouses.
Most of us make the effort, although some of us are less discreet than
others. I heard of a man who taped a $20 bill to the floor outside
his office and watched for women to bend over to pick it up. Another
man taped a mirror to the floor below his office partition adjacent to
a female colleague's desk. Video cameras are a tactical variation
but otherwise nothing new. Whether such peeking is good or bad is
a matter of opinion, but it certainly shouldn't surprise anybody.
Another
point that should be raised is that these women are utterly unaware that
they've been videotaped. I'm reminded of the Indians who believed
that their souls were stolen if their pictures were taken. The objections
raised by these women are similarly puzzling. That is, how can they
say they're harmed if they're utterly unaware of it and totally unaffected
by it? Nevertheless, they're outraged and demand an end to their
"victimization". OK, if they want to protect themselves they can
easily do it. All they need to do is wear pants, long dresses, or
bathing suit bottoms under the short skirts. Will they bother to
protect themselves? Of course not. They'd rather demand that
government do it for them by passing repressive legislation intended to
regulate the behavior of men. Such legislation is now being enacted.
Two states have already outlawed such videotaping. As of this writing,
California is in the process of becoming the third. We can be sure
that other states will fall in line because any man who dares opposition
will be demonized as a pervert.
OK,
maybe taking pictures up a woman's skirt is bad and maybe it isn't.
We all have our opinions. However, just because something is bad
doesn't necessarily mean that it should also be illegal. As long
as it's possible for this particular group of "victims" to easily, effectively,
and non-coercively protect themselves, then they don't need a police state
to do it for them. Nevertheless, the War on Muffshots is under way.
Soon, extra cops will be needed on the streets to conduct Muffshot surveillance
of backpacks, brief cases, and baby strollers. We can have random
Muffshot checks at work and our homes can be subject to Muffshot raids.
Cops will be able to search motor vehicles, without a warrant, for Muffshot
violations. We can have a Muffshot Czar. The Muffshot Enforcement
Agency can train dogs to sniff for cassettes at airports and schools.
Muffshot "busts" will be common. The courts can be crowded with plaintiffs
claiming that their videotapes weren't shot from an illegal angle, but
from a few degrees higher, while cops busily falsify the angle measurement
data. The prisons can be filled with Muffshot violators serving three-cassette
sentences. Vice squad women, sans panties, can conduct miniskirt
stings, enticing men to videotaping they "probably would have done anyway"
(the perverts!). We can have Muffshot turf wars and criminal gangs
that sell Muffshot paraphernalia, including scratch 'n sniff screens, probably
manufactured in somebody's bathtub. Legally registered video cameras
will be required to have lens locks and be stored in child-proof cabinets,
and anyone who wants to buy one will have to submit to a three day waiting
period and a background check for a Muffshot history. Scratch 'n
sniff televisions will be outlawed and TV screens will be routinely dusted
for fingernail prints.
Well,
it might not get quite that silly, but even so the entire coercive so-called
"common sense" methodology of the wars on drugs, cigarettes, fireworks,
pornography, domestic violence, guns, smog, terrorism, drunk driving, male-only
institutions, abortion, child abuse, dolphin abuse, and every other reformer's
repressive agenda can now be applied to the Muffshot War, thanks to a bunch
of women who refuse to act like adults and take the simple precautions
by which they could protect themselves. In the end, they will have
created thousands of times more victims, of far worse atrocities, than
they would ever have numbered themselves, even by their most exaggerated
claims. You know the most ironic and predictable part? When
they're done, we'll still take a peek whenever and however we can.
Nothing they do, however outrageous or irresponsible, is going to stop
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