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Technology Liberation Front: Sen. Rockefeller Gives Up on Parenting at Senate Violence Hearing

  • l0b0t · 2 years ago
    I hate to say "I told ya so." but that's what you get when you elect most Democrats (I must carve out an exception for Rep. Barney Frank, I disagree with many of his ideals but he is an honest, forthright advocate for parental responsibility.) I DO NOT want to argue or start a flame war here, I know Republicans, lately, are no better. At least the Republican ideal (as represented by Goldwater) is based in an understanding of our constitution; government as a free association of equals. The big-govt. Democrats seek to replace that paradigm with their own; government as family/ all-knowing father. The issue here, as always, is power. The govt. doesn't care so much about the content of the programming they just want the authority to regulate it. The FCC is positivly giddy thinking about control over CATV and VOIP. The nation's coffers would be much better served by a national sales-tax or VAT but we will never be rid of our "progressive" tax on income for no other reason than the power it gives the govt. to snoop into your private life and see where your money is coming from. <ul>Here is Sen. Rockefeller's contact info. Let his staff know what a fatuous ass he sounded like at the hearing.

    <li>Web Site: rockefeller.senate.gov</li>
    <li>E-mail: senator@rockefeller.senate.gov</li></ul>
    <ul>Washington Office:
    531 Hart Senate Office Building
    Washington, D.C. 20510-4802
    <li>Phone: (202) 224-6472</li>
    <li>Fax: (202) 224-7665</li></ul>
    <ul>Main District Office:
    405 Capitol St., #508
    Charleston, WV 25301
    <li>Phone: (304) 347-5372</li>
    <li>Fax: (304) 347-5371</li></ul>
  • eric · 2 years ago
    "Rockefeller, who is planning to soon introduce legislation to regulate 'excessively violent' television programming, said that the industry is being 'cowardly' and 'debasing our culture' in a 'never-ending race to the bottom.'”

    This is all true. But government is not competent to regulate the problem. Even if competent, it has shown itself untrustworthy.

    If there is one fatal delusion that we must exorcise from our representatives, it is the notion that problems can be easily remedied by passing a law. (Preferrably a big law, with a lot of earmarks hidden in it.) They see a problem, pass a law, and try to delude us (and perhaps themselves) that they have actually fixed something.
  • s-b-t · 2 years ago
    Why trust and permit one of the most violent institutions in existence today to teach us how to raise our children?
  • Jim · 2 years ago
    Why on Earth is there no licensing board for parents in the United State?

    Parents are the only thing blocking total control by the State. The esteemed Senator, the voice of the State, has gone on record with his beliefs.

    We all know that the State is perfect and omnipotent. Why does it bother with the charade? License parents already! Could the State actually be imperfect and powerless?

    I cannot stand the thought. We must have licensing of parents. That will lay the groundwork for the peaceful elimination of parents altogether, when the State can use technology to reproduce humans in accordance with Huxley's vision in Brave New World.

    Then everything will truly be perfect. And the State will be omnipotent.

    Yea.