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Let’s talk Eric Holder

This is not about the FALN.

After the tragedy at Columbine when Eric Holder was still a lowly assistant attorney general with Clinton, he blamed the evils of the internet for Columbine.

His solution: censor the internet. don’t laugh, he really said it.

You see the internet would be very easy to censor because there are definately not billions of users, millions of websites, and all of these in different countries. True he said this in 1999 when there were less people online, but the ridiculousness of this “idea” still stands.

He has not had to address this borderline delusional idea yet, but I sure hope someone in the senate brings it up because I really want to hear how he will go about it.

Liberals, in general, have this idea that something that is offensive should be banned. so do “Christian” conservatives (why the self declared christians are the most intolerant still baffles me) who want to ban stuff like porn or Darwin.

The conservatives are the most contradictory because they are supposed to be about small government, but many want the government to ban things. we all know liberals like big government, so Holder does not comes as a shock, but to the small-government totalitarian censors I can only say: huh? really?

We conservatives do not want to ban Darwin or porn. With respect to Darwin and the probability that he should be categorized with The Flat Earth Society I do not want to invest money and effort to indoctrinate my children with outdated information just because it has acheived a religious status.
Porn that is in the form of TV shows such as Friends is much more invidious than that which is found on the internet. I know this because my daughter informed me that the normal progression of a relationship is living together, maybe having children and then if you are really committed, marriage. The social implications are enormous. She learned this not from me. Please don’t tell me to turn the channel because as a normal teenager she has friends and I do not have control over their TVs.

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Mike Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 8:35 am

I undestand what you are saying about the social implications of even the current sitcom that features a non-nuclear family or a live-in couple, what has been done is to remake the American people’s views on relationships and their natural progression. Even more absurdly in my opinion, they have glorified the “one night stand” as being an ok thing to do every once in awhile; the emotional implications of a sexual relationship has been totally destroyed. It is a real tragedy.

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