Because the serious terrorist groups don't have the resources to put men on the ground with maps, cameras and cell phones:
A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require all virtual mapping programs to blur out schools, places of worship, government or medical buildings or face hefty fines and possible jail time.
Assemblyman Joel Anderson, a Republican, crafted the bill after it was revealed that terrorists in Israel and Mumbai used popular mapping programs to help plot their attacks.
"All I'm trying to do is stop terrorists," Anderson told the AP. "I don't want California to be helping map out future targets for terrorists."
According to the bill text, photographs and images of schools, places of worship, government or medical buildings must be blurred. Street-level imagery would also be banned. Companies that violated the provisions of the bill would face fines of up to $250,000 for every day the illegal imagery was available online.
It worked so well for Barbara Streisand that it's just amazing that no one has had the wisdom to apply this thinking to more important buildings like schools, places of worship and government buildings. It's about time that the law was changed because clearly, blurring out these buildings will make them inaccessible to terrorists and other ne'erdowellers. Good for you, Joel Anderson, for denying international terrorists what is clearly the key part of their intelligence gathering process. We need more politicians like you, and less like the ones who are busy trying to balance California's budget.
I think he IS trying to balance the budget. 250k a day? Thats a pretty penny right there! And do you have any idea how hard it would be for Google or Mapquest or Yahoo to comply? It would be easier to blur the entire state than to comply with such a policy. It would take so many man hours to track down those sites that it is likely that some of them would still exist.
You know, it's easy enough to find a "Greetings from Sunny California!" postcard at the tourist traps, but I never can seem to find a "Greetings from the City of Dis!"
It is a bittersweet thing to see how the rest of the nation reacts to Pelosi and her minions running the show in Congress... Their names are Legion out here.