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Customer Ralph told Juanita this morning, “As a civic minded Texan I feel that we have a duty to out-crazy these guys in Florida, but they are not making it easy.”

Juanita agrees.

State Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa, introduced S.B. 1246 to the Senate on Tuesday. As written, it would make it a first-degree felony to photograph farming activities in the state.

Jim Norman: Nakkid Bull

“Now Jim says,” Juanita relates, “that this is to protect the intellectual property rights of the farmer.  You know, like how to dig a hole or operate something with John Deere written on the side without instructional materials.  Or how to tell the difference between a cow and bull if they are wearing clothes.”

Juanita and most people with a thinker mechanism think that Ole Jim doesn’t want people to see how farm animals are treated in Florida.

Jim finally fessed-up and said that people do horrible things.  Just horrible.

“A concern of many of our farmers and ranchers are the extremist groups that intentionally and maliciously want to come on a farm and try to shed bad light on a farming operation,” he says. “They might take pictures of animals in different positions so it looks like they might be being hurt or whatever it might be, and we’ve heard in many cases from what’s happened out west and in other places, so we want to get ahead of the curve before they hit here in Florida and try to do the same thing.”

“It’s dinner.  Close  your eyes and eat, dammit.”