Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Censorship of books in libraries Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:53:11 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 101 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:53:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cc29c015af91339deb5a1978f4072780"; logging-data="987358"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+zw0qVgKJ8W+Ih8cZh+KUY" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ahqa0/VusbzYKn74Mr3c+X2Njj0= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 6331 On 4/15/24 10:10 AM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Apr 15, 2024 at 1:38:35 AM PDT, "FPP" wrote: > >> On 4/14/24 3:05 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. >>> >>> (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? >>> >> You are exhausting. > > Good. Means I'm doing something right if I'm exhausting you people. > > Beats actually accomplishing anything, I guess. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0