Brig. Oscar Smedley
August 23rd 07, 02:20 AM
in Government circles are either ignored or shuffled
# off into the bureaucratic process never to reappear, but once in a while
# a suggestion is simply laughed out of existence.
#
# The other day, President Reagan was meeting with senior staff members at
# the White House, and the recent report by Attorney General Edwin Meese's
# Commission on Pornography came up, according to one of the participants.
#
# The commission majority had concluded that exposure to pornography "bears
# some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence, sexual coercion
# or unwanted sexual aggression," and Patrick J. Buchanan, the White House
# director of communications, proposed that the Administration use this to
# ban the sale of Playboy and Penthouse from all post exchanges on military
# bases.
#
# There was a long pause, and then, the source said, another White House
# official observed: "Well, that would certainly do wonders for our
# recruiting program."
#
# The room burst into laughter, in which President Reagan enthusiastically
# joined in, and then the idea was not raised again.
War against immigrants.
Imagine directing hospitals to turn illegal immigrant children into the police!
War against homosexuals.
When the government says it can't handle gays in the Military, it gives
the SAME arguments as it did when it said blacks should be kept out of
the Armed Forces.
How about requiring all new enlistees to agree they can handle being near
homosexuals before joining...eventually removing all the people upper
Military management claims cannot handle them: within five years drop
the persecution of homosexuals.
It
# off into the bureaucratic process never to reappear, but once in a while
# a suggestion is simply laughed out of existence.
#
# The other day, President Reagan was meeting with senior staff members at
# the White House, and the recent report by Attorney General Edwin Meese's
# Commission on Pornography came up, according to one of the participants.
#
# The commission majority had concluded that exposure to pornography "bears
# some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence, sexual coercion
# or unwanted sexual aggression," and Patrick J. Buchanan, the White House
# director of communications, proposed that the Administration use this to
# ban the sale of Playboy and Penthouse from all post exchanges on military
# bases.
#
# There was a long pause, and then, the source said, another White House
# official observed: "Well, that would certainly do wonders for our
# recruiting program."
#
# The room burst into laughter, in which President Reagan enthusiastically
# joined in, and then the idea was not raised again.
War against immigrants.
Imagine directing hospitals to turn illegal immigrant children into the police!
War against homosexuals.
When the government says it can't handle gays in the Military, it gives
the SAME arguments as it did when it said blacks should be kept out of
the Armed Forces.
How about requiring all new enlistees to agree they can handle being near
homosexuals before joining...eventually removing all the people upper
Military management claims cannot handle them: within five years drop
the persecution of homosexuals.
It