White House seeks child-speech oversight

The Daily Caller ^ | 3/11/11 | Neil Munro

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Roughly 150 various advocates — lobbyists for gays and lesbians, legislators, White House officials, at least one cabinet secretary and the first lady — gathered around President’s Obama’s bully pulpit in the White House Thursday to cheer for increased government monitoring and intervention in Facebook conversations, in playgrounds and in schoolrooms around the country.

No officials at the televised East Room roll-out of the White House’s anti-bullying initiative suggested any limits to government intervention against juvenile physical violence, social exclusion or unwanted speech. None mentioned the usefulness to children of unsupervised play. None suggested there were any risks created by a government program to enforce children’s approval of other children who are unpopular, overweight, or who declare themselves to be gay, lesbians or transgender.

“It breaks our hearts to think that any child feels afraid every day in the classroom, on the playground, or even online,” first lady Michelle Obama said.

“We’re going to prevent bullying and create an environment where every single one of our children can thrive,” the president said, as he announced a series of government actions intended to fund, guide and pressure state and local officials to adopt regulations and programs that would shield children from insults or social-exclusion as well as from physical harm.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

For anyone naive or stupid enough to believe the "anti-bullying" initiative was "for the children"...wake the hell up.

[null and void]

Teach serfdom early and well...

[Steely Tom]

Gotta hand it to ‘em. The left’s not going to give up on the First Amendment and the internet.

They’re going to shut them both down one way or another, if it takes them until the end of time.

The fact that they keep at it shows that our side’s winning, IMPBHO (perverse-but-humble-opinion).

[xtinct]

Is Obambi feeling bullied?

If so, it means he cannot handle himself after he's offensive.

It's kind of obvious that these people are hanging on to someone calling them "poopy pants" on the playground.

[JenB]

Here you go

[Pollster1]

George Orwell was an optimist.

[headstamp 2]

Liberls,

“Conservatives want to control every aspect of our lives”.

[metmom]

Ping

[RC2]

Do you really believe that he could defend himself against anyone? He’s a whimp and we all know it. When I was a kid, many, many years ago, we handled bullys on our own. Kids can be cruel, we all know that, but somehow, someway, they all grow up and get over it. We are turning our kids into whimps and instead of handling real problems, we take on the BS projects.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Roughly 150 various advocates — lobbyists for gays and lesbians, legislators, White House officials, at least one cabinet secretary and the first lady — gathered around President’s Obama’s bully pulpit in the White House Thursday to cheer for increased government monitoring and intervention in Facebook conversations, in playgrounds and in schoolrooms around the country....None suggested there were any risks created by a government program to enforce children’s approval of other children who are unpopular, overweight, or who declare themselves to be gay, lesbians or transgender. “It breaks our hearts to think that any child feels afraid every day in the classroom, on the playground, or even online,” first lady Michelle Obama said. “

Holy crap 'reeducation camps' ping!

[Palmetto Patriot]

Stay away from my kids.

[Gene Eric]

The biggest bullies setting the bully standards.

[Steely Tom]

Let me know when they announce protection for African-American children who are subjected to beat-downs because they study too much and are, therefore, “acting white.”

[sickoflibs]

This idea has been tried before in South Park:

The children complain about Mr. Garrison's inappropriate activities, but their parents mistakenly think their children are intolerant of homosexuality. They send the children to the Museum of Tolerance, where all sorts of gags occur. Following the museum tour, a smoker is spotted outside and the adults lay into him in the same manner they attempted to teach the children not to do with minorities or those with different life choices.

The children refuse to attend class(over Mr. Garrison's inappropriate activities ), so their parents send them to an Auschwitz-like “Tolerance Camp.”

Episode 93 : The Death Camp of Tolerance

[Sister_T]

Figures. Kids have been bullied and have been bullying others for years and not once did the government feel the need to “intervene”, not to this degree. Now, because of the anti-First Amendment homosexual lobby, bullying is suddenly a huge deal. And guess what, even after all of this, kids will still be bullied and continue to bully others.

[Mark was here]

Playground behavior monitoring is exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>Let me know when they announce protection for African-American children who are subjected to beat-downs because they study too much and are, therefore, “acting white.”<<

No action whatsoever will be taken against any African American.

[Ramius]

They did backflips when Bush wanted to tap international phone calls between terrorists and have wiretap warrants follow a person instead of a phone. Backflips.

Now... the government wants to “monitor” ordinary child and family communications and they don’t see a problem?

[dblshot]

"Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children."
Optimist maybe, prescient certainly

[Just A Nobody]

“We’re going to prevent bullying and create an environment where every single one of our children can thrive,”
the president usurper said, as he announced
a series of government actions intended to fund, guide and pressure state and local officials to adopt regulations and programs that would shield children from insults or social-exclusion as well as from physical harm.

If this doesn't scare the crap out everyone they are too stupid to take up valuable air. Where the heck are the riots?