Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:41:07 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Censorship of books in libraries Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <17c4b72567149412$90$3553870$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> <20240409165532.00005caa@example.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 87 Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:41:07 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 5234 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c66abcd3ea53db$57450$3349862$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 5630 On 4/14/24 2:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , FPP > wrote: > >> On 4/13/24 12:57 AM, The Horny Goat wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:11:32 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >>> >>>> Nope. It prohibited 'don't say straight' every bit as much as >>>> 'don't say gay'. >>>> >>>> In other words, it was telling teachers to keep their personal sex >>>> lives to themselves and out of the classroom. >>>> >>>> Hardly an unreasonable position for anyone who isn't a lunatic. >>> >>> More to the point, it's restricted to 'primary age' kids which around >>> here means grades 1-3. Which in my opinion is totally reasonable. If >>> it were grades 9-12 I likely would feel differently. >>> >> Sure. Until it isn't. You start there and they quickly worked their >> way up. >> >> That's how it's done. Once you see the nose of a camel in the tent, >> it's quickly followed by the rest of the camel. > > You guys are the geniuses of incrementalism. You did it masterfully with > destroying the criminal justice system here in California. > > It started with Newsom unilaterally doing away with the death penalty > despite the fact that the people of California not only passed it into > law through their elected representatives, but then they reaffirmed > their support for it overwhelmingly in two subsequent ballot measures. > But Newsom overrode all 40 million of us and imposed his own political > preference by fiat. That's horrific. How does this compare to the Roe v Wade situation? > (There's that precious 'muh democracy' that y'all are always so worried > about.) > > And he and his fellow Dems in the Assembly said, "Don't worry, even > without the death penalty the really bad guys will still be in prison > for life without parole." > > A few years go by, then the same characters start talking about how not > giving people the chance for parole is too cruel, so they started > passing laws giving LWOP convicts the ability to challenge their > sentences and have them converted to life *with* possibility of parole. > > Then came Prop 47 and Prop 57. One started the process of releasing all > non-violent criminals from state prisons. The other reclassified a whole > host of objectively violent crimes as 'non-violent' so they would > qualify for release and downgraded dozens of felonies to misdemeanors so > criminals wouldn't even be sent to prison in the first place. This was > sold to the public by Kamala Harris as "The Safe Schools and > Neighborhoods Initiative". > > Now they're releasing any murderer, no matter how heinous his crime, if > he was convicted before 1994. So life in prison is now effectively no > more than 30 years and "Only the non-violent offenders will be released" > has morphed into throwing open the doors and letting pre-meditated > murderers run free. > > Then the Dems staffed the Public Safety Committee in the Assembly with > the most radical hug-a-thug pols in Sacramento to ensure no new crimes > are ever added to the penal code. They wouldn't even make sex > trafficking of minors a 3-strike eligible felony until they were shamed > into it when their refusal to do so made international news. Selling > kids for sex isn't bad enough to warrant prison time for these lunatics. > > All this happened bit-by-bit over the course of 10 years as part of a > well-coordinated plan by 'progressive' Democrats to empty our prisons > and jails and neuter the criminal justice system in the state. They knew > they could never do it in one fell swoop even though they had the votes > for it because the boiling frog (the public) would scream holy hell and > vote them all out. So they did it one little bit at a time, > step-by-step, and now here we are, with crime out of control, businesses > shutting down in the major cities and fleeing the state, and the public > wondering how society seemed to have disintegrated overnight. > > What has always puzzled me and continues to do so is why? Why do > 'progressive' leftists seem to love the idea of living in a lawless > hellscape instead of a civilized society?