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November 02, 2006
Bill Clinton called me the other day...
You can tell it's election time and that there are hotly contested races when the former president of the United States calls you. Granted, it was just a recording, and I hung up before I could hear what he had to say. The next day, Anne Northup called me. Same deal, recording, hung up on it.
Tonight, though, I have been getting angry. I saw three commercials that were anti-Baron Hill. Because he voted against prohibiting the sale of violent and sexually explicit movies and video games to children. I haven't exhaustively researched the issue (especially since Baron Hill and Mike Sodrel are in Indiana, and I am in Kentucky, so I can't vote for them), but one article I found on the subject said that Hill voted "in 1999 against an amendment to a juvenile crime bill that would have prohibited the sale of violent and sexually explicit movies and video games to teenagers." The amendment failed on first amendment grounds.
I'm not a super political person, but this ad has just been pissing me off. Mostly because parents should be policing their own children. When I was younger, we always had the computer in a "public" place of the house. I never had a computer in my bedroom until I was in college. Our game systems were the same way. I did have a tv and vcr that I bought in high school with my own babysitting money, but my parents didn't extend cable to my room until I was in college, and would look at what movies and stuff I would buy.
I know that if a kid wants to play violent video games or watch sexy movies, they are going to find a way to do it without getting caught. I'm not really good at putting my thoughts into words here, so I'll use a quote from "Blame Canada," from the South Park movie:
Shame on Canada
For...
The smut we must stop
The trash we must bash
The Laughter and fun
Must all be undone
We must blame them and make a fuss
Before someone thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!!!
Because, in the South Park movie, the parents were too busy trying to blame other people instead of actually being parents to their children. And that is why the ad makes me so mad. Parents should take some responsibility for their kids and not try to make the government do it.
Posted by shmecky at November 2, 2006 11:26 PM
Comments
Back when I was a lad, you had to really work hard to find porn. I had the best secret stash spot; I never had to worry about anybody finding it. Kids these days just don't know how easy they have it.
Posted by: Adam Villani at November 28, 2006 08:37 PM