Congressman Westmoreland votes to ban The Citizen

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Congressman Lynn Westmoreland voted yesterday to ban sites that contain blogs with user profiles from public schools and public libraries.

The online version of The Citizen contains blogs with user profiles that can contain biographical information about individual users.

The vote was envisioned to prevent children from accessing the popular MySpace website from public school terminals, but was so broadly written that any site containing personal user information, such as amazon.com and thecitizen.com, would be subject to the new law prohibiting the access of such sites at libraries and schools.

Here's a synopsis of the proposed law

Here's Congressman Westmoreland's vote

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You've Got To Watch Him Like A Hawk....
Submitted by 30YearResident on Fri, 07/28/2006 - 7:29pm.

Not surprising...

When he was in the Georgia house, he introduced a bill that would allow builders to do their own county inspections and not be subject to "county inspectors".

Not to surprising, he's a builder.... and one that has quite a few "stop work" citations issued against him for not being up to code.

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Basmati I love ya
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Submitted by ptctaxpayer on Fri, 07/28/2006 - 5:45pm.

Basmati I love ya

You do great research and great posts and you have a good perspective.

First of all you are giving Lynn credit for excersing some thought in a public policy debate. He gives no more thought to voting than he did to letting Colbert into his office and being embarrassed by only knowing 3 of the 10 Commandments.

He probably will preface all of his comments with "The 8th District is family oriented, we believe in God....blah, blah, blah,..."

Lynn Westmoreland is to public policy what Spongebob is to The Performing Arts.

P.S. Where can I buy Basmati Rice in Fayette ? Trouble finding it.


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Conservative school for that, PTCtaxpayer
Submitted by Sailon on Fri, 07/28/2006 - 6:40pm.

Maybe you don't know about the special school the so called conservatives (Cal Thomas, Charles Krauthammer, Rush Limbaugh, and a host) have to teach robotic political position runners how to stay on message. All of Fayette County conservatives have attended. Won't get into details, but #1 is "family Values," now that has nothing to do with how many divorces you have or how many kids you aren't properly supporting--it really means nothing ,but many voters think it does. It also doesn't include their cousin Heather who had an abortion after getting pregnant at summer camp by an undesirable. Number 2 is "fiscal rsponsibility," now that doesn't mean anything either except they like to think the Asians and the Arabs will at least buy the bonds to finance the deficit, when it occurs. Number 3 is "Civil rights." now that doesn't mean anything either--especially when it comes to wire taps and e-mail interceptions, but they are for electronic voting with no paper trail, wonder why? There are 7 others but you get the idea.

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Yea, but where do parents come in
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Submitted by mudcat on Fri, 07/28/2006 - 5:11am.

Westmoreland and 400 others did the right thing, but like most things up there it is too little toolate. How about somebody legislating parental responsiblity? Something with real penalties for non-performance or apathy. That's what the real problem is.
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