State Rep. Stickland wants to pull the plug on the National Security Agency in Texas. Literally.

[TexasTowelie]

There are about 6,000 bills filed every legislative session in the state of Texas, including the Senate and House, and about one-fourth of those eventually become a law. Many of them become punch lines. Take, for instance, House Bill 3916.

It was just filed by Jonathan Stickland, the former fetus from Bedford. Here is how he introduced it on Twitter: “I just filed HB 3916 which will cut off water/electricity to all NSA facilities in the state of Texas #txlege #NSA #liberty #privacy #tcot.”

Here is an excerpt from the proposed legislation, which says it’s “relating to water and electric utility services provided to certain federal agencies,” which, incidentally, are never named.

Sec. 580.005. PROVIDING WATER AND ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICES TO CERTAIN FEDERAL AGENCIES PROHIBITED.

(a) In this section, “federal data collection and surveillance agency” means a federal agency that is involved in the routine surveillance or collection and storage of bulk telephone or e-mail records or related metadata concerning any citizen of the United States and that claims the legal authority to collect and store the bulk telephone or e-mail records or metadata concerning any citizen of the United States without the citizen’s consent or a search warrant that describes the person, place, or thing to be searched or seized.

(b) A political subdivision may not provide water or electric utility service to a federal data collection and surveillance agency or to the property or a facility of another person used to support a federal data collection and surveillance agency for information collection or storage.

(c) A political subdivision that has outstanding bonds that are payable from pledged water or electric utility revenue is required to terminate the water or electric utility service, as applicable, to a federal data collection and surveillance agency only when the bonds are repaid.

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1. Rec & Kick to get Stickland on a Watch List.