This is the kind of stuff that drives me absolutely batty about the California Legislature. The problem is one of those idiotic ideas that comes along that argues for a part-time legislature. It is the kind of stuff that we see when a legislature has nothing better to do in life but try to get their name on a bill. It angers me so much that I can't see straight when I hear about it.
Here's the deal. State Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountian View, has put forth a bill that makes it illegal to spank a child. She recently stated to the Sacramento Bee that corporal punishment victimizes children and it is one reason our society is "addicted to violence." Nanny state...a swat on the butt could now be punishable with up to a year in jail!
One has to wonder if all these legislators do is sit around and listen to the sound of their voices reverberating in the rotunda...
Worse yet: Arnold Schwarzeneggar seems receptive to the bill: that is the sound of me screaming...the governator has said that he was smacked around as a child, so the bill doesn't seem so bad.
Aghhhhhh....
Okay, there is no question that there is abuse in the world. And, there are laws on the books that need to be enforced, and are, everyday. Now throw in to the mix the State of California telling parents that they are not to swat there children. I am not even talking about using a belt, something I received quite a few times as a child. I am not "addicted to violence."
Yesterday I caught on FOXNews Shepard Smith talking with Ms. Lieber, another San Francisco liberal, about her bill. Her comment was that the current prosecution for laws hasn't been abused by malicious prosecutions. Lets tie up the police and the courts with enforcing a law that does nothing for the safety of children, let alone the safety of society in general. I will guess that this same assemblywoman would be happy to give the little ones instructions as to how to put their free condoms on a cucumber, then protect the rights of the child to abort the fetus, right. Then argue that we must protect the rights of sick people to have the right to destroy embryoes because life isprecious and we have to protect those who can't protect themselves, except when it is the life of the unborn child. The world is upside down...
Nanny State. The state as mom and dad. The government knows what's best for children. Why, I have a great idea: let's create a state bureaucracy to raise our children...oh wait that's the job of public schools.
No Spanking...Editorial: San Diego Union Tribune:
Lawmaker would outlaw spanking toddlers
Anything drive you more insane than legisaltors with nothing better to do with their time but stick their noses in things they have no business in?