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You have no idea how I feel. I do believe in personal responsibility. And I do FEEL that internet filters are a slippery slope. I'll ask you the same question I've asked before, who decides what gets filtered? Your neighbor? The police? Who?

Here's a thought for your thick skull, maybe the people who flip the bill for the library and have children who visit the library, should have a say at what goes on in the library. Librarians are terrified at this thought.

Dear Always Right,

I fear that here you may have belied your tag line in one sense at least. The problem seems to be a community desire to not have childrenlooking at porn on library computers.

Alas, reduced to its core principles, this is unfortuntely primarily a parent/child issue. If the lil' monsters want to access porn, they will. Count on it. The real situation is that parents have not properly educated their children about such things, about the proper relationship between male and female, and why porn isn't a good thing.

Merely banning it makes it that much more desirable. Deficient parenting can not be compensated for by any known mechanism. That is why those desiring to replace the Republic with some version of socialism deliberately trashed the family.

The unavoidable task is the reimposition of the traditional social contract wherein each American was responsible for his or her own behavior according to the social contract as defined in the Constitution and the state in which the individual citizen lives.

This would mean that some areas, like the Big Sh*tty (AKA New York City) might well allow anything to be accessed via library internet and some smaller cities in the South might not. But the key is local. In this case, the reliance on central decision making by a DC office is most questionable.

Complex issue, but even though I don't like the DC office of the library union (so to speak) being used as 'an authority' over the locals, still I am more afraid of allowing the parents to avoid the responsibility of parenting by dropping the responsibility for their lil darlins porn watching on the shoulders of the librarians.

At most, the librarians should notify the parents if Junior or Jane is watching such materials. Leave the responsibility for parental decision making to the parents!

Repeat: Leave parenting to the parents.