THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE RIGHT WANTS EVERYBODY TO BE A CHILD, THE LEFT WANTS EVERYBODY TO BE A CRIMINAL | 2004-01-31

The right wants to censor the Internet. They say they are all for freedom, they are just concerned about the children.

The right says that children can get into adult movies, so there should be no adult movies.

That means that any communications medium children can get access to should be treated as a medium for children.

If you treat everybody like a child, you don't need a dictatorship.

The right wants to censor the Internet in the name of the children. The left wants to censor violence. Any citizen who owns a gun is regarded by leftists as being the same as a repeat criminal who has a gun.

When it comes to guns, the left often uses the right's excuse. They say that the National Rifle Association wants to hand out guns to kids.

There is a coalition for censoring the Internet. Leftists who want to treat everybody like a criminal are making common cause with the rightists who want to treat everybody like a child.