Path: ...!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: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:38:35 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 96 Message-ID: References: <17c4b72567149412$90$3553870$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> <20240409165532.00005caa@example.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:38:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8e16e7e6848705fc04a08698e9d7d90d"; logging-data="211244"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/bsznHARb2xr6UpX6k/LeY" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:AZWUGAElHXtXM2UDjsgQyDNDsGo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 6265 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. You talk about "lawless", but you're being led by a man the judge called a rapist, and is facing 88 felony charges. He's been found liable for fraud, defamation and rape. But, sure... leftists are lawless. -- "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