My mentor at the newspaper, here, wrote an excellent editorial today, in which he told about somehting I'd not heard of. It could effect any one of us. So, I'd like to start a discussion and also raise awareness of what I consider a dangerous and frightening action.

According to Chas., in Aug. a US Sentaor from where else but Kansas, introduced a resolution which would create a seven member Special Committee on American Culture to invstigate "the cultural crisis facing America."

The purpose of said committee would be 1) "to study the causes ad reasons for social and cultural regression; 2) to make such findings of fact as are warranted and appropriate, including the impact that such negative cultural trends and developments have on the braoder society, particulaly in regards to child well-bing; and 3) to explore means of cultural renewal."

Chas. goes on to bring up the different eras of such panic when blues were prominent, when elvis first started gyrating, etc. He also points out that the Americna famiy Association calls the American Library Assoc. a "radical org." because librarians refuse to restrict what children may see on the Internet, saying it is the parent's job to guide their children. He also points out that the the irony that the ultraconservative AFA wants a government agent, i.e. county or state librarian, to tell our kids what is proper to read or see.

I know we've had discussions on censureship before, but this seems to be a closer reality, no longer in the abstract. It is disturbing and I believe a real and tangible threat to our freedom of expression, belief, and way of life.

The floor is yours.......

kat