Censorship: state bans games that kill pigs

[Tim May]

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