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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.

You seem to be implying that I have advocated a federal law or something. No, I just want local parents and citizens to take control of what goes into the libraries they have paid for with their tax dollars. This has been taken over by the ALA, and is not what most parents/taxpayers want. Find me a city where most of the people want children to be able to freely access porn on library computers. If there is one, let the kids freely access porn there. There isn't one, but this is what most libraries do against the wishes of the public. I just want the people to take back the control of their libraries which they rightfully should have.

. If the lil' monsters want to access porn,(smoke dope, stay out all night, screw each other) 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...

By that logic drugs should all be legalized, and the age for drinking liquor should be lowered to - ten? Nine? Nothing should be illegal then, if "banning" it (making it illegal) makes it more "desirable". Why have any laws against anything? Your argument is absurd.

It is true that parents need to do good parenting, but it is becoming harder and harder in a world with so many broken homes and social decay in part fostered by sexualization of children at earlier and earlier ages.