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The Broncos’ Voice
Februaiy 1994
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Read Me My Rights!
-continued from p. 6
in circles and giggle while looking up dirty
words! Ban all school newspapers because every
one knows that youth can't have insight! And
just to insure that all banned books can't be
bought on illegal markets, burn them. It would
be gloriuos,nay righteous, to watch all those
pages turn to ashes in the middle of the school
playground.
I don't understand where the problems lie. If
I shoot someone, put me in jail. I know it isn't
that simple, but at the moment, it is more logi
cal than banning firearms. If you think televi
sion shows and video games are too violent for
your four-year-old, I have a simple solution:
pull the plug. The TV doesn't work without elec
tricity. And if you're really desperate, re
place the remote control or joy stick with an
"appropriate" book. Teaching your child to read
may be radical, I know, but once you get over that
initial fear, it's all a bed of roses.
Recently, I remarked to a friend, "Won't it be
tragic when people rebel by thinking for them
selves?" The tragedy I failed to recognize was
that we are already well on our way to becoming
the most mindless, violent, "quick-fixed," and
stupid nation in the world. The episode of "Picket
Fences" had a happy ending. The Sheriff saved the
day, and the Judge reminded the town that when
everything else is stripped away, the last pos
sessions of a citizen are his rights, as guaran
teed in the Constitution of the United States of
America. But I couldn't help wondering, at the end
of the show, "Who's going to save our country,
when a select few want to take away these rights?
And when they're gone, what will we be?"
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