War-fel What Is It Good For?

He’s Illinois’ newest celebrity, video-camera-toting, senate-candidate-stalking, Justin Warfel.  The Jack Ryan for Senate aide actually gets paid to follow Democratic U.S. Senate Nominee Barack Obama across the state, and to video tape his every move.  Oppo research is a plum job for ambitious young campaign staff, and this kind of thing isn’t all that unusual in major campaigns these days.  But Warfel has gotten too close for Barack’s comfort, so Chicago City Council mover-n-shaker Ald. Ed Burke (14th) wants to fix that by creating a 20-foot “zone of personal privacy” around anyone who doesn’t want to be photographed.  We at Chicagoist immediately see benefits to this new ordinance, since we are constantly dragged down by our many fans attempting to photograph our every move.  Imagine this conversation:

Chicagoist:  Dude, what are you doing?
Fan:  I’m recording your every move for posterity.
Chicagoist:  Get back!  Step out of my legally instituted zone of personal privacy!
Fan:  Man, that Chicago City Council thinks of everything!

And, scene.