Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Don't search the web

Really, don't. 

It is a bad place, not just for children. 

Our search obsessed TheEditor (a person despite the strange spelling) was hopping from website to website when he or she came across this:

"they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside"

This graphic, disturbing language was heard in the public realm of the United States Senate in 1971 during hearings on Vietnam. There was a war going on, in case you don't know. 

We should all be glad that something like this cannot happen any more. We  have, luckily, evolved from such graphic descriptions of violence and found democratic ways to keep things quiet.

While throwbacks do occur in the public arena,  like the warning of death panels under Obamacare, they are nowhere near as detailed as the quote from a the statement of a young Mr. Kerry above.

Keep your children safe, ask Congress to put stuff like this behind an age verification system. 

Seriously, don't do that. We have enough suffocating fear going around as it is.
 

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