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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Censorship of books in libraries
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:53:11 -0400
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On 4/15/24 10:10 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2024 at 1:38:35 AM PDT, "FPP" <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/14/24 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>   In article <uvgj0h$3kt9v$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>   
>>>>   On 4/13/24 12:57 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
>>>>>   On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:11:32 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> 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.

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