[KLUG Advocacy] RE: CIPA unconstitutional -- my simple idea ...
Bryan J. Smith
advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
04 Jun 2002 14:10:27 -0400
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 13:41, Adam Williams wrote:
> And corporations have an entirely diffrent agenda than a library.
Correct.
> I like this "select a filter" idea, and it actually would be trivial to
> implement using something like squid. But it doesn't solve the "computer
> next to me" problem. The person to my right may view something I find
> offensive, I'll see it out of the corner of my eye, and I'll be offended
> (Oh my!). This may help, but in the end I still think it is just a
> "problem" we are going to have to live with.
That's why certain filters (or lackthereof) can be regulated to a
private room.
> Oh no! The NEA is not for the Democratic Party? I often vote for
> Democrats, and my wife is a public school teacher. The NEA is way too
> stupid, backward, and ignorant to be "for" anyone, at least successfully.
Okay, I'll meet you there. But they still favor the Democrats heavily.
> I'm a "liberal" but I certainly wish they didn't consider themselves in my
> camp. The only thing the NEA is "for" is the bloated egos of the educrats
> that make up their board.
Now you know what us Libertarians must feel about the Republican party.
There are so many Libertarians locked up in a Republican party that
still fails to realize you canNOT legislate morality.
> But it doesn't help the small fringe groups that can't afford to
> onstruct their own lists, or (some by their very nature) don't have a
> cental organ to do so.
That was my point -- they need to rely on large organizations to help
them.
> I hope the Michigan Department of Ed doesn't try. Oh my gosh.... Please!
> Send in the corporotists.
Okay, I understand. I feel Florida would be more of the same too.
> Hmm, I'm not sure thats what freedom is about. But thats another thread.
Yeah, I hear you.
It's too bad your a Democrat though. ;-P But you gotta love W. and all
the spending he's doing. Basically Gore v. W. was the same deal, both
from old money. Except you've got one guy who's a hypocrite and too
self-promoting, and another guy that was spoiled, but man enough to
admit he's made mistakes.
Ack, I didn't even like the Libertarian candidate, Harry Brown. If the
Republicans would put up Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes or Jack Kemp (in that
order of preference), I'd vote for them -- let alone Powell.
-- Bryan
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