There is a danger lurking in your home. This threat, heretofore unknown, can claim the life of your child at every moment. In the last year, this threat has claimed the lives of at least four small children and injured at least 10,000 others.
That threat is the stupidity of their parents. And now they want to make you pay for their stupidity.
Last year, a group of well-meaning but misguided people, pretending to want to protect children, introduced to Congress the Katie Elise and Meghan Agnes Act of 2005, which, fortunately, has gone absolutely nowhere.
But if these purveyors of death disguised as consumer protection have their way, then television sets and other furniture will have to carry warning labels, as well as be redesigned to try to prevent them from tipping over, because children might climb on them and tip them over onto themselves.
It does sound well-meaning, at first, but that’s how most legislation of this particularly vicious and destructive nature starts out.
Since losing her 2-year-old son to a television that tipped over onto him in her home last month, Kelly Damiano of Great Kills has gone to sleep holding his blanket, because that’s the closest she can get to him. . . .
“We need to stand together to make sure no other child loses their life to something so stupid,” she said. “I’ll devote anything I have to making sure no mother has to see what I’ve seen or feel what I’ve felt.” — Staten Island Advance
Anything? Like abdicating your parental responsibility and passing a law which requires all other parents to abdicate their responsibility to their children? I would like to think you are simply well-meaning but misguided.
You can be sure that if this sort of legislation passes, the following will happen:
Parents will read the warning labels and note the protective devices, and think the newly redesigned furniture and television sets are perfectly safe, and thus they need not warn their children against doing anything dangerous, like climbing on top of the TV. Many parents have already abdicated their responsibility, and this law gives license to even more of them to look the other way as their children grow up even more shiftless than last year’s children. Those who survive the falling TV sets, that is.
You may expect even more children will be injured and die than do now, because their parents will have turned over their parental responsibility to bureaucrats in Washington, who know nothing of parenting.
This is the death sentence that these purveyors of “compassion” want for you. But it’s only your death sentence if you agree to it. Do not agree to die for the people who say they want to save you, when their true goal is to rule you.
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Jason
May 02, 2006
Welcome to America. The land that personal accountability forgot.
Jason
May 02, 2006
Accountability? Reponsibility?
Whatever.
Oppressed by Bush
May 02, 2006
And yet, they dream every night that one day they will be able to stick their cameras and speakers in our heads so they can issue the latest warnings and corrections as you go about your daily business, via “The Pleasant Restoration of the Empire of America Network Allegiance Law (P.R.E.A.N.A.L)”.
PREANAL(day to day): â€Remember, a good citizen always pays all of their taxes, no questions asked…No! No! No! Stop what you are doing! You are in direct violation of the condom application procedure codes–I will have alerted state authorities for immediate inspection!…Warning, for your safety, do not attempt to resist a full search or inspection. The use of deadly force is hereby authorized in your area, effective immediately!â€
Oppressed by Bush
May 02, 2006
oops…
* “-I have alerted state authorities”
Michael Hampton
May 02, 2006
You know, I completely forgot to mention the secondary effect of this bill, beyond the fact that it’s going to kill people: it’ll drive up the cost of furniture and TV sets.
forstand
May 02, 2006
I spent part of the previous 4 years working or traveling in Russia and Kazakhstan. I have many, and I mean many, pictures of electrical hazzards and other hazzards such as no guard rails around railroad platforms.
Children are taught to not touch certain objects or get near the edge of platforms. I feel that if they do then they are taken out of the gene pool early.
We are one of the few species on this planet that is devolving–getting worse–because we pamper the genetically unfit and allow them to reproduce. If a child cannot be taught the word ‘no’ then that is a genetic defect on the part of the parent(s) or child. I see no reason that parent(s) should be rewarded financially for such defects.
Dave
May 03, 2006
An indirectly related article to further explain what would happen… Here
wheatdogg
May 04, 2006
This reminds of a story from my college. Seems a rather inebriated student climbed up on top of the electrified shuttle train that runs between the campus and the main line, with predictable results. So, what does he do? He sues the railroad and the university for failing to (a) turn off the power and (b) fence off the pantagraph.
Then there were the guys who sued a lawnmower maker, because they injured their fingers while using a rotary mower as a hedgeclipper!
Children are a different case, of course, since we can’t hold them responsible for doing foolish things, but surely even a half-aware parent should know how to child-proof a house. It’s not rocket science. How do legislators get the idea that they can legislate against stupidity? People don’t read the damn warning labels anyway. The scary health warnings on cigarette packages don’t seem to be terribly effective, for example.