Rumor: Kerry & Edwards Want to Ban SEIV

[se5a]

heh, I hear you AT, I went to a school that had the 'strap' as it was called, and I was the unfortunate victom of un unjust straping to - unfortunaly I was so shamed by the whole thing I threw away the letter to my parents and didnt tell them, which was absolutlty stupid, as mum would have gone in there guns loaded ready to do battle (we were prety honest kids so she would have belived my side of the story, unlike hte principle)

I for one agree with a good smack on the fleshy part of the backside, but becuase of my unfortunate expericanes at school I would never let anyone disiplin my kids, (when i get some) a parent tends to know a when there kid is telling the truth better than anyone else.

as for limiting the number of kids to a family, I duno, its a hard one.
it can end up just restricting those good law abiding citizzens and the not so gret citz who dont give a damn have large familys whos kids dont give a damn and the whole thing cycles ending up with more people who are not good citz than those who are.

[PvK]

If that's true about CPS, Attro, then it is a corrupt organization out of control that needs shutting down. Maybe some laws need to be modified. It doesn't amount to a disagreement about abuse on either end of the scale (child abuse, or parent abuse by an agency) - I trust none of us, and no honest and sane people want either. It also doesn't fall under "those darn liberals are to blame".

Parents don't have any way to punish their children besides hitting them are in sad need of help in parenting. That's where an even worse crisis is in this country - too many parents without enough understanding of how to be a good parent.

PvK

[PvK]

As for the Patriot Act, IMO it's far worse than airliner kamikaze attacks, in a different way, of course. If anyone believed George W. Bush was defending our freedom, well he surrendered that war with that act, and became a far worse enemy to freedom than any terrorists.

PvK

[Loser]

Originally posted by psimancer:
i personally would loe to see the usa quadruple the tax deduction for a single child family
double the present deduction for a 2 child family
and after 3 children start halving it every additional child

We don't need population control in the U.S. Our population is only growing becuase of imigration, which is a good thing.

Eventually, with increases in urbanization, other countries won't have population problems either. And when their 'baby boomers' reach adulthood each and every one will experience a culteral revolution, perhaps even a political one. That's the way it works.

As for this law, don't forget that the courts have consistantly came to the side of the publishers and developers on grounds of free speach. Unjust laws do get passed in the U.S., sometimes. We have a system of checks and balances that corrects this, given time.

I would like to ask, alarikf, why you switched from Libertarian to 'liberal' (whatever that means, you have indicated that you favor the Democrats)?

Most people I know who were Libertarians in their youth no longer call themselves such. They may swithc to one of the main parties, may go further into the extreme and favor anarchism, or may come up with their own names for their beliefs, like Anarchial Capitalism, or somesuch.

[Renegade 13]

Hell, if you think you have overpopulation in the US, well you can always come up here to Canada. We're in need of some good, decent people. After all, we're a larger country than the States, and with about 10% the population! No worries about overcrowding here

[Atrocities]

Before you freak out, know that it will be a cold dark day in hell before I will ever give up my games. They can pry my Space Empires IV disk out of my cold dead hands.

Ok here it is:

I was watching the news tonight and they mentioned that Kerry and Edwards are in favor of banning or limiting the production and or sale of violent video games.

What are violent video games you ask, well according to the news, violent video games are games that promote or have violence as in death, destruction, battle, war, domination, etc. These types of video games would be under the Kerry Edwards administration be targeted for censorship and or Banned entirely.

I am afraid that games like Space Empires would be included in this ultra liberal banning and so would most of the games we currently enjoy because they depict violence and war. Now I know this is a broad spectrum of games, but keep in mind these people don't care. They use lables to sell their way of thinking, and unfortunetly as much as we ALL know that Space Empires is NOT a violent game, they do because of their liberal labeling system.

Now I have searched Google, yahoo, and many others trying to find sources that would cooberate the news channels statement and I have found NONE.

So at this point I am willing to chalk this up to email rumors and the crappy channel 12 news eagerness to stir up controversy.

If this rumor is true, and any one can post a link to anything relating to it, please do so.

[Raging Deadstar]

Sounds pretty false but if it does happen do not worry.

I'm sure the English and European Space Empires Fans will be willing to smuggle Aaron Hall (and any other Americans) to Europe and allow him to Publish and release SEV here. I will be more than prepared to set up a Space Empires Black market and make sure you Americans get your fix of War, Violence and Dominion

[Randallw]

Will they want to ban nasty brutal sports like american football with all that violent running into and knocking over each other, battling to win and dominating the other team?. Unlikely as they would lose their precious votes from sportsloving americans.

edit: anyway they probably have in mind that the only people who play the games they oppose are teenagers who can't vote.

[ July 08, 2004, 12:31: Message edited by: Randallw ]

[Atrocities]

With these two, one never knows Randallw, one simply does not know. They freak me out.

[Raging Deadstar]

Sometimes i am incredibly thankful about living in england, although even our government is taking things a bit far in some measures it's now taking. The whole debate on a Ban on Smacking children and numerous other issues is getting quite worrying...