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On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 08:42:02PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> At 11:20 PM -0400 10/11/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/0326212&mode=nested
> >
> > Bush Links Columbine Massacre to Internet Use
> > posted by cicero on Wednesday October 11, @10:25PM
> > from the sounds-a-lot-like-joseph-lieberman dept.
> >
> > George W. Bush may have bested Al Gore in tonight's presidential
> > debate, but it sure wasn't because of the governor's tech-savviness.
> > Warned the Texas Republican, in response to a gun-control question:
> > "Columbine spoke to a larger issue, and it's really a matter of
> > culture. It's a culture that somewhere along the line we begun to
> > disrespect life, where a child can walk in and have their heart
> > turn dark as a result of being on the Internet and walk in and
> > decide to take somebody else's life." It was undeniably a good,
> > mushy, appeal-to-the-softhearted line, but the sheer schmaltziness of
> > it is in questionable taste. For instance: Was the Net really to
> > blame? Shouldn't even a "compassionate conservative" want to hold
> > miscreants responsible for their own actions? And would the guv have
> > offered the same warning to millions of Americans if the Columbine
> > killers had, say, been regulars at the public library?
> >
> >Transcript is at:
> >http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/0326212&mode=nested
>
> This was a very small, and inconsequential, part of the debate/discussion.
>
> Had George Bush called for _Internet licensing_ in some concrete way,
> comparable to the way Al Gore called for gun licensing, I would be
> more concerned about Bush's comments. But he did not.
>
His statement reflects his total lack of any sort of intellignce. I
don't interpret it as a policy statement.
> Throwing in a line about the Columbine creeps being influenced by the
> Internet (or by Quake and Doom and other games, or by "The Matrix,"
> or by being spoiled suburban brats) is not the same as calling for
> unconstitutional abridgments of freedoms.
You're right. But only a dumbass would blame the Internet for student
violence.
>
> Normally I vote Libertarian. This year I may vote for Bush as a vote
> for who will do me, us, and the Constitution the lesser damage of the
> two. (All voting is about bang for the buck, about effectiveness of a
> vote...an election is not about "voting for the best man," it is
> instead about minimizing damage.)
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