Lawyers, guns and money

The Republicans must be having a hard time finding something to scream and yell about, since they’ve spectacularly screwed up most every mission they have embarked on and ignored every promise they've made in the last decade or so.

Who would have thought however, that the “save our children” circus so closely associated with Mark Foley would be seen as something with life left in it by a Republican so prominent as John McCain? The Arizona Senator has introduced the most hysterical bit of ill-considered, questionably Constitutional and sloppily written garbage recently to pose as legislation. According to a C-Net News.Com article,

“concern about protecting children online has reached nearly a fever pitch in Washington”

even though, according to the article, studies by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children show the online sexual solicitation of minors has dropped in the past five years.

Of course you have a hard time proving that to those who see sin and deviltry everywhere and perhaps these crusaders do see a lot of it because it seems so many of them are involved in it, but primarily, the War on Pornography that has been a major part of the Republican platform in every campaign for decades during which Islamic terrorism was ignored, seems to be the leaky life ring they are grasping at in their panic. Even though the definition of child pornography has become so broad that taking fully clothed pictures of children with their parents’ consent can land you in jail, McCain still stoops to the side-show level to grasp at any vote he can find.

The repercussions of this legislation, should it somehow pass (and who is going to vote against anything that promises to save the kids from pederasts?) will be staggering for those who post in blogs or publish blogs with discussion sections. Put your profile, or profiles of your fellow bloggers on your Blogger page? Better do a background check because if someone there or in your discussion area was branded a sex offender when he was four years old, you’re going to need lawyers, guns and money before the matter is settled.

In fact, the various ramifications and repercussions of this hysterical witch hunt are too vast and amorphous to treat with here, but let me sum up with the opinion that if we do not take every available action to rid our nation of the Republican insurgency, we may one day be looking at Afghanistan with longing.