The Nanny State Gone Haywire, in the Reddest of Red States

[Stingo]

When people can’t solve their own problems, they turn to The Nanny State. Conservatives claim a desire for small government, but they advocate strict law and order provisions pack US jails fuller than in any other country, soon to include a couple 11 year old boys who snuck a look at internet porn. They loves some of that Nanny State!

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2009/04/16/the-nanny-state-gone-haywire-in-the-reddest-of-red-states/

[Stellabella]

1. What a joke. These right wing nutbags want the government involved

in the most personal parts of our lives - in the bedroom and the doctor's office.

Which just comes down to the fact that they're unbelievably judgmental and nosy.

[Stingo]

3. But they sure

don't want to pay those taxes for nosy government intrusion they insist on.

[tanyev]

2. They want to decide which issues get "nannied".

[DCKit]

4. Shouldn't they be going after the school system...

for having such a shitty firewall? The teacher for not being "right there"? The state of Utah for allowing such a sinful tool of Satan into the classroom?

Won't somebody please think of the children?

[Stingo]

6. Shouldn't they

Just punish the boys and be done? Sounds simple.

[Stingo]

5. Just to be clear

"Nannied" = "Diapered" only in the case of David Vitter. Well, there could be more Republicans like him. . .

[madmom]

7. What happened to "youthful indiscretion"?

[Mopar151]

8. "Zero Tolerance" n/t

[Stingo]

9. Parents minus personal responsibility =

bring in the cops. Of course sex + fear + kids = panic, too.

[Miss Authoritiva]

10. My only guess...

My only guess is that we're running out of adults to brand as perverts and we're now forced to go after kids who haven't even sprouted pubic hair yet.

This is just twisted.

[Stingo]

11. My goodness

That's awfully snarky, isn't it?