Oct. 29th, 2003 07:54 pm
Minor editing on an otherwise great post
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razorjakI'm not LJ-cutting this. If you whining little asstarts don't want to read it; you can just skip over it. Cry me a river that I caused such discomfort to you. (- Can you tell I can't stand it when the only comment someone can say about a good post is LJ-CUT!!! -)
Protection From Politicians Week, 2003
By a citizen of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Politicians can have debilitating effects on communities, marriages, families, and children. During Protection From Politicians Week, we commit to take steps to confront the dangers of politics.
The effects of politicians and politics are particularly pernicious with respect to children, who are taught to respect politicians and are actually gullible enough to believe in them. Just as they do in Santa Claus. The recent enactment of the PROTECT Act of 2003 increases the number of child pornography laws, establishes the Federal Government's role in the AMBER Alert System, increases punishment for Federal crimes against children, and authorizes judges to require extended supervision of sex offenders who are released from prison. Which if it actually protected children from being exploited would be a good thing, but in reality it only punishes those who have exploited children, but has no other deterring force.
Our government has committed significant resources to the Department of Justice to intensify investigative and prosecutorial efforts to combat obscenity, child pornography, and child sexual exploitation on the Internet. They are vigorously prosecuting and severely punishing those who would harm our children. Last July, the Department of Homeland Security, an organization that was chartered by presidential executive order on Oct 8, 2001, to deal with foreign terrorist threats, launched Operation Predator, an initiative to help identify child predators, rescue children depicted in child pornography, and prosecute those responsible for making and distributing child pornography. Why aren’t they doing what they what they are supposed to?
Last year, George W Bush signed legislation creating the Dot Kids domain, a child-friendly zone on the Internet. The sites on this domain are monitored for content and safety, offering parents false assurances that their children are learning in a healthy environment, since this in no way monitors what other sites these children may be viewing. That responsibility still remains with the parents of these children where it in truth belongs. Working together with law enforcement officials, parents, and other caregivers, this government is attempting to make progress in protecting our children from pornography. Even though the term "Pornography" is a layperson's term, with no particular legal significance.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOE AVERAGE CITIZEN, Citizen of the United States of America, by virtue of the freedom of speech vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 26 through November 1, 2003, as Protection From Politicians Week. I call upon public officials, law enforcement officers, parents, and all the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of October, in the Common Era year two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.
JOE A. CITIZEN
Protection From Politicians Week, 2003
By a citizen of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Politicians can have debilitating effects on communities, marriages, families, and children. During Protection From Politicians Week, we commit to take steps to confront the dangers of politics.
The effects of politicians and politics are particularly pernicious with respect to children, who are taught to respect politicians and are actually gullible enough to believe in them. Just as they do in Santa Claus. The recent enactment of the PROTECT Act of 2003 increases the number of child pornography laws, establishes the Federal Government's role in the AMBER Alert System, increases punishment for Federal crimes against children, and authorizes judges to require extended supervision of sex offenders who are released from prison. Which if it actually protected children from being exploited would be a good thing, but in reality it only punishes those who have exploited children, but has no other deterring force.
Our government has committed significant resources to the Department of Justice to intensify investigative and prosecutorial efforts to combat obscenity, child pornography, and child sexual exploitation on the Internet. They are vigorously prosecuting and severely punishing those who would harm our children. Last July, the Department of Homeland Security, an organization that was chartered by presidential executive order on Oct 8, 2001, to deal with foreign terrorist threats, launched Operation Predator, an initiative to help identify child predators, rescue children depicted in child pornography, and prosecute those responsible for making and distributing child pornography. Why aren’t they doing what they what they are supposed to?
Last year, George W Bush signed legislation creating the Dot Kids domain, a child-friendly zone on the Internet. The sites on this domain are monitored for content and safety, offering parents false assurances that their children are learning in a healthy environment, since this in no way monitors what other sites these children may be viewing. That responsibility still remains with the parents of these children where it in truth belongs. Working together with law enforcement officials, parents, and other caregivers, this government is attempting to make progress in protecting our children from pornography. Even though the term "Pornography" is a layperson's term, with no particular legal significance.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOE AVERAGE CITIZEN, Citizen of the United States of America, by virtue of the freedom of speech vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 26 through November 1, 2003, as Protection From Politicians Week. I call upon public officials, law enforcement officers, parents, and all the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of October, in the Common Era year two thousand three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth.
JOE A. CITIZEN