On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 02:02 PM, Justin wrote:
At 2003-04-25 20:07 +0000, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Wash. to ban 'violent' game sales State law will levy $500 fines to anyone selling Grand Theft Auto to children.
I think I know what will become the #1 CD of school playground "swap meetings".
Don't forget zero tolerance. If caught, they'll be suspended or expelled or transferred. I've never understood the concept of expulsion from public school before age 16. "You must go to school" then "you must not go to school" seems rather silly to me. I guess it's better to have them running around neighborhoods in gangs with real guns than going to school and using chicken strips to shoot at teachers. About the cd swapping, maybe their parents will go to jail, too. That's going to be really productive for shaping the child's or young teen's perception of society.
I have wondered what happens when a 14-year-old kid is picked up for truancy at the shopping mall and then explains that he was kicked out of school. As for putting more and more people in prison, this is what happens when prisons become corporate owned-and-operated profit centers and when the same folks who profit from the destruction of Iraq and then the lucrative rebuilding of Iraq are the ones launching the wars and ordering the rebuilding. As one of the noted fascists said, "Fascism _is_ corporatism." --Tim May