In recent years, a certain percentage of scumbag men have taken it upon themselves to import women from foreign countries and then sell them out as prostitutes and do whatever god-awful things crazy people do when they can’t get a date here in the US and they have to basically buy and then kidnap some random country girl from god-knows-where.
And then there are the guys who just dig Brazilian, Russian and Asian women and have no problem flying around the world auditioning them and paying to bring them back to the US, leading, to happy marriages, children, stable and productive lives spent together.
Due to the former group of said scumbags, it appears that some Maryland lawmakers have decided that they know best how to protect international women but in reality appear to have lost their senses completely. Like the True.com-sponsored legal junket around the US to push their business model through legislation a few years ago, I fail to see how the current legislation will prove to be effective.
What follows was sent to me by Tristan Laurent at Onlinedatingrights.
Members of Online Dating Rights, Online Dating Rights sounded the alarm this January when the Maryland State Legislature introduced legislation to require Maryland residents to submit their fingerprints to a criminal repository before being allowed to contact others through a dating service if those others are foreigners. According to one of the bill’s lead sponsors, Republican Delegate Jeanne Haddaway-Riccio of Talbot, the bill is needed to protect women from domestic abuse. The bill would make it a criminal offense for a dating company to allow a Marylander to communicate with one of its customers before ensuring that the Maryland citizen deposited his fingerprints in the criminal repository. (A later amendment to the bill changed this to require that the dating company must collect the fingerprints.)
The bill passed the Maryland House of Delegates unanimously on February 7, 2010 and is now being considered by the full Senate after it was approved unanimously by the Economic Matters committee.
Meanwhile, due to public criticism that the bill targets only Maryland residents attempting to communicate with foreigners and thus provides no protection for American women, Delegate Jeanne Haddaway-Riccio is considering widening the scope of the bill. According to an email she sent to an opponent of the bill who testified against it at a Senate committee hearing, Ms. Haddaway indicated that the scope of the bill may be widened to include all dating services. (emphasis mine- ed.)
Online Dating Rights was formed after the passage of IMBRA in 2006, and it is an organization dedicated to informing the public about the dangers of dating regulation laws and to opposing IMBRA, the Maryland bill and other laws that violate the civil rights and First Amendment rights of American citizens. Its members include a wide variety of professionals who are very knowledgeable about these laws and about the dating-regulation industry that has been quietly laying plans for collaborating with state and federal lawmakers for more laws to restrict online dating.
Fox News commentator, author and media personality Marc Rudov has weighed in on the Maryland legislation. Alluding to the law enforcement philosophy that marijuana is a gateway drug, Rudov says that like IMBRA, the Maryland law is a gateway law, the first step of many by which the government and feminist groups will interfere with men’s dating and marriage rights.
– Tristan Laurent
