Some people are blaming the migrants. If they would only use the proper channels to come to America then we wouldn't have an immigration problem. Ask anyone who's tried it. The system is broke. It can take years to get a legitimate work permit if you get it at all.Some people blame the farmers who hire the migrants. If they would only follow the labor laws and check people's documents. So, what, a guy named De La Cruz applies for a job and you call the FBI? That's harrassment. Chances are his family has been here longer than mine.Some blame the grocery chains that don't pay the farmers enough to hire legitimate labor to pick the food.Tell me something. Would you change grocery stores if you found out a head of lettuce was a nickel cheaper down the street? Sure. So would I. And as long as my nickel is more important than their justice, I'm the problem with immigration.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Life, Liberty, and Gratuitous Violence?
Let’s be clear about two things. Video games are not speech, and they are not free. Judge Steeh’s ruling strikes down Michigan law restricting sale of violent video games to minors. The US military is using video games to train our troops how to conduct urban battle; do we not see a disconnect when commercial video games aimed at 15-year-olds train on drifting, street racing and police evasion tactics?
The speech declared free by the Constitution is speech suppressed. It is the speech of the town hall meeting. It is the broadside sheet on the street corner. It is the blues lyric. It is the blog. It might face suppression by political authority, by socially correct authority, or by editorial authority. No one who has ever sent a conservative letter to the San Francisco Dailies believes the newspapers represent a “free press.” They are in business to sell a product to a market, just like the pornographers, the distillers, and the video game houses. If the shelves are full of your games and all kids have to do is have Mom buy it for them, guess what, it’s not suppressed. It’s controlled.
Here's a thought, if you really think your First Amendment rights to Free Speech are being impinged, reduce the price to zero and give your product away. That will get the word out. What? Not willing to go that far? Then you're not concerned about Free Speech, but about Commerce. That's another section of the law. Please don't wrap yourself in the Constitution, the seams are under enough strain as it is.
And if the game makers don’t think they can profit from games bought by parents for kids, what needs to change?
The speech declared free by the Constitution is speech suppressed. It is the speech of the town hall meeting. It is the broadside sheet on the street corner. It is the blues lyric. It is the blog. It might face suppression by political authority, by socially correct authority, or by editorial authority. No one who has ever sent a conservative letter to the San Francisco Dailies believes the newspapers represent a “free press.” They are in business to sell a product to a market, just like the pornographers, the distillers, and the video game houses. If the shelves are full of your games and all kids have to do is have Mom buy it for them, guess what, it’s not suppressed. It’s controlled.
Here's a thought, if you really think your First Amendment rights to Free Speech are being impinged, reduce the price to zero and give your product away. That will get the word out. What? Not willing to go that far? Then you're not concerned about Free Speech, but about Commerce. That's another section of the law. Please don't wrap yourself in the Constitution, the seams are under enough strain as it is.
And if the game makers don’t think they can profit from games bought by parents for kids, what needs to change?
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