Putting it to a Vote
30 May 2006 by Lya KahloAh, democracy.
The good:
Abortion ban repeal drive gets 37,846 signatures
A taste:
“The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families announced Tuesday that it had secured more than twice the number of signatures it needed to refer the abortion ban passed by the 2006 Legislature to a vote of the people this fall.
At a press conference at the Downtown Holiday Inn, officials with the campaign said they had 37,846 signatures – more than double the 16,728 they needed to get.
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State law requires 16,728 signatures of registered voters for the referral to be placed on the ballot for Nov. 7. It can take two to three weeks for the secretary of state’s office to certify an issue once the signatures are filed.
And the downright bile inducing:
You know how all those homophobes try to claim that recognizing gay relationships will lead too all kinds of freakery trying to gain national acceptance? You know how they like to prosecute poor drug users (while protecting their own)? You know how they like to mix all these things together and claim that its all because we’re not xian enough?
Well, as if on cue from the Bush Admin . . . here’s “proof” fresh for the Get Out Pansies party to campaign on :
This is in the much more tolerant, much less religious land of semi-legal drugs.
Pedophiles to launch political party
A small piece so you don’t puke all over the desk:
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals, sparking widespread outrage.
The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party said on its Web site it would be officially registered Wednesday, proclaiming: “We are going to shake The Hague awake!”
The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.
“A ban just makes children curious,” Ad van den Berg, one of the party’s founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper. “We want to make pedophilia the subject of discussion,” he said, adding the subject had been a taboo since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium. “We want to get into parliament so we have a voice. Other politicians only talk about us in a negative sense, as if we were criminals,” Van den Berg told Reuters. (mod note: could it possibly be because YOU ARE CRIMINALS? Douchebag.)
The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, was shocked by the plan.
Notice how they just HAD to mention the rest? Someone remind me again how legal pot makes one a pedophile? How do two adult gay people getting married pave the way for illegal acts?
Anyone want to join in for another round of Spot the Logical Fallacy?
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30 May 2006, on 4:17 pm
Can we play a round of ‘Mountains and Molehills’ or ‘Non-existent Correlation != Causation” as well?
30 May 2006, on 4:53 pm
Gotta love that tyrrany of the majority.
And about the pedophiles - I don’t get why anyone cares. I could form a politcal party to advocate the extinction of the human race, but that doesn’t mean I’d actually have any influence or power. I really doubt this Dutch party will get anywhere, they probably just feel more emboldened than, say, NAMBLA, because of the generally more permissive Dutch society.
Not that any of that matters, though. I’d bet my next paycheck we’ll be hearing all about this as we get closer to election time - along with the phrase “slippery slope” - if (when) gay marriage becomes an issue. Like you said, Lya - Ah, Democracy.
30 May 2006, on 5:01 pm
I think, in general, that it’s not such a bad idea to have these creeps organize themselves into groups so as to keep better track of them. But then the NSA is keeping track of everyone. Do you think the NVD candidates will be kissing babies? And does Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum know about this?
31 May 2006, on 1:33 am
I just saw something about this on “Charlie Rose”. Seems 11 states currently have legislated abortion bans- 7 of which have not had them struck down by courts. But, each awaits Roe v. Wade being struck down before it goes into effect. The social conservative, rabid zealots of the rightwing, of course, want Roe to be overturned in the worst way but this may, in fact, be the worst fear of Republican leaders, the endangered oxymoronic “conservative intellectuals”. Their fear is that, should Roe go, the more moderate, the women, the nonfundies of the GOP, will abandon the party en masse over. Because even in the states with the impending laws, a solid majority of the populace is against the laws- suggesting that the state assemblies overreached in their base-pandering. So, as bad as this sounds, it might behoove all of us if this Stupe-ream Court would make the colossal fuck-up of overturning Roe, just to kind of burst this artificial “bubble” of misogynistic frenzy, this waking wetdream of the fucktard-gelicals. Who knows?
31 May 2006, on 6:47 am
“I’d bet my next paycheck we’ll be hearing all about this as we get closer to election time - along with the phrase “slippery slope” - if (when) gay marriage becomes an issue.”
I’m glad someone’s paying attention. Good to see the point didn’t whiz past everyone.
1 June 2006, on 10:05 am
1. Pot renders people immune to bullets and gives them superhuman strength.
2. Everyone is a closet pedophile, with only the fear of Hell and police bullets to stop them.
3. Atheists don’t believe in Hell, so only bullets will stop them.
4. Being immune to bullets takes away that threat, leaving them free to pedophile.
What’s scary is that someone, somewhere, probably in office, works by that “logic.”
1 June 2006, on 10:14 am
The Charity, Freedom and Diversity party?
Diversity = All ages welcome.
Freedom = To crawl into your bed in the middle of the night.
Charity = Want some candy, little girl?