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pan6467 · 12-13-2004, 03:49 PM

Anything, at any given time can be found offensive to anyone. There is someone above (sorry didn't want to pull a quote just for this) who thinks dead baby jokes are funny. That is his right. I find Sam Kinison to this day hilarious even though I've heard everything he's ever recorded about 1,000 times. That is my right.

I understand having to protect children but unlike any other "free" country that I know of we go above and beyond to pass laws against people's rights for "the children". Yet, we have the highest juvenile crime rate, the highest teenage homocide rates, the highest drug use among teens, the highest teen pregnancy rates and so on and so on and so on.

We feed our kids ritilin and other drugs because they are "hyper" and we just can't control them. We sit our kids in front of the television to babysit them and we don't pay attention to what they watch, but all of a sudden when we see something, offensive to us, we freak. We find nothing wrong with buying our children video games where they must kill graphically. I have yet to hear of (and I maybe wrong) a television show being fined for being too violent in nature.

My point is we are lazy when it comes to our kids. We are turning over how we raise them to the government, we use them to get what laws and control we want from the gov't.

These people who usually complain about the children and what they must endure, are in most cases the ones who vote down school issues. Think we have too many services paid for by taxes to help kids and believe most parents in lower incomes don't deserve children.

I find it all very hypocritical. It is the parents who must be held responsible not society and not the government.

If you can't find something on television for your children to watch at at 10PM, when they should be in bed, then buy a video, because with all the choices out there, there is no reason to cry to Uncle Sam to dictate what the rest of us can watch.

If your children can't listen to a radio at 8:30 AM because a few stations in your area have Stern and Stern wannabes on, you need to ask WHY aren't they in school (and when I was a kid I had far more to do than listen to a radio during breaks, like sleepovers, sleeping in, going outside and playing, socializing, etc) and why can't you turn the station? Why must society be punished for your beliefs?

Yet, I'm sure you have no problem letting those same kids play violent video games.

We have gotten so bad out here that a child can threaten the non-abusive but punitive parent, "If you punish me, I'll go to children's services and tell them."(direct quote I have heard a child say.)

I cannot help it that the complainers out there have no life and feel they must get their agendas shoved down my throat. They just have no right to dictate to me and to the majority what we can or cannot see or hear on our televisions and radios.

12-13-2004, 03:49 PM	#78 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	Anything, at any given time can be found offensive to anyone. There is someone above (sorry didn't want to pull a quote just for this) who thinks dead baby jokes are funny. That is his right. I find Sam Kinison to this day hilarious even though I've heard everything he's ever recorded about 1,000 times. That is my right. I understand having to protect children but unlike any other "free" country that I know of we go above and beyond to pass laws against people's rights for "the children". Yet, we have the highest juvenile crime rate, the highest teenage homocide rates, the highest drug use among teens, the highest teen pregnancy rates and so on and so on and so on. We feed our kids ritilin and other drugs because they are "hyper" and we just can't control them. We sit our kids in front of the television to babysit them and we don't pay attention to what they watch, but all of a sudden when we see something, offensive to us, we freak. We find nothing wrong with buying our children video games where they must kill graphically. I have yet to hear of (and I maybe wrong) a television show being fined for being too violent in nature. My point is we are lazy when it comes to our kids. We are turning over how we raise them to the government, we use them to get what laws and control we want from the gov't. These people who usually complain about the children and what they must endure, are in most cases the ones who vote down school issues. Think we have too many services paid for by taxes to help kids and believe most parents in lower incomes don't deserve children. I find it all very hypocritical. It is the parents who must be held responsible not society and not the government. If you can't find something on television for your children to watch at at 10PM, when they should be in bed, then buy a video, because with all the choices out there, there is no reason to cry to Uncle Sam to dictate what the rest of us can watch. If your children can't listen to a radio at 8:30 AM because a few stations in your area have Stern and Stern wannabes on, you need to ask WHY aren't they in school (and when I was a kid I had far more to do than listen to a radio during breaks, like sleepovers, sleeping in, going outside and playing, socializing, etc) and why can't you turn the station? Why must society be punished for your beliefs? Yet, I'm sure you have no problem letting those same kids play violent video games. We have gotten so bad out here that a child can threaten the non-abusive but punitive parent, "If you punish me, I'll go to children's services and tell them."(direct quote I have heard a child say.) I cannot help it that the complainers out there have no life and feel they must get their agendas shoved down my throat. They just have no right to dictate to me and to the majority what we can or cannot see or hear on our televisions and radios. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"