CA: Legislature backs "cuss-free week"

[disorderlyvision]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/25/california-state-legislature-vote-cuss-free-week-resolution/


Californians had better start watching their mouths. The stateAssembly passed a resolution Thursday that would establish the firstweek of March as 'Cuss Free Week' throughout the state. If approved bythe Senate next week, the measure would take effect immediately. Theresolution includes no enforcement mechanism and is simply meant topromote greater harmony and connectedness, said Assemblyman AnthonyPortantino, a Democrat from La Canada Flintridge and co-author of themeasure. ... Portantino said the California Legislature -- known forimposing strict clean air and clean water laws -- is the first statelegislative body in the nation to consider a statewide profanity-freeweek. The resolution was inspired by a South Pasadena teenager, McKayHatch, who started a No Cussing Club at his junior high school in2007. Similar clubs have since cropped up in every state and 20countries

[acptulsa]

Did anyone suggest they'd have more luck if they all left the state for the duration?

So, they're spending their time during the heat of the crisis on this. If I were a Californian, I'd probably cooperate. Indeed, I'd be cussing so hard right now I doubt I'd have an ounce of vitriol left to spit out next week...

[Anti Federalist]

Fuck that

:D

[DapperDan]

http://pics.livejournal.com/jill_sparrow/pic/00019e3a

[InterestedParticipant]

Just more Soviet Sensitivity Training techniques coming to America. I wonder how these techniques actually filter there was down to political bodies and into legislation. I mean, someone has to germinate the idea for the bill, draft it, general political support for it, then political donors have to financially back-it. That's the involvement of a lot of people. Somehow, these activities are coordinated, because what donor is going to give a politician's 507 $10K for this kind of legislation.... and what politician is going to waste their time supporting something so trivial if there isn't some reward in it.

[disorderlyvision]

Just more Soviet Sensitivity Training techniques coming to America. I wonder how these techniques actually filter there was down to political bodies and into legislation. I mean, someone has to germinate the idea for the bill, draft it, general political support for it, then political donors have to financially back-it. That's the involvement of a lot of people. Somehow, these activities are coordinated, because what donor is going to give a politician's 507 $10K for this kind of legislation.... and what politician is going to waste their time supporting something so trivial if there isn't some reward in it.

Good questions....I have no answer

[Fox McCloud]

While I don't have the full text of the bill before me, if it does exactly as the article says, I really have no problem with it, at all...it's just a recommendation/guideline to do "X"; but you're not legally bound to do "X" and won't be punished if you don't.

It'd be like if our Federal Congress passed a law establishing, for 2 weeks a "Donate to Haiti" effort, that encouraged people to donate money via charities to help out the Haiti, but yet it cost the tax-payers nothing, it isn't forced, and ultimately it does nothing (but make a collective statement).

basically it's just a collective statement on something, and nothing more...I have no problem with these at all, as long as they're not legally binding (Ron Paul has voted on quite a few of these in the past....collective statements of congratulations, etc).

[InterestedParticipant]

While I don't have the full text of the bill before me, if it does exactly as the article says, I really have no problem with it, at all...it's just a recommendation/guideline to do "X"; but you're not legally bound to do "X" and won't be punished if you don't..
It's Sensitivity Training, or what we've been indoctrinated to call Political Correctness. It's highly manipulative, and an extreme threat do individual liberties.

Look it up!

[BuddyRey]

You know what this means right?

We have to spawn a grassroots movement in California to get people to vote for The Iron Sheik as a write-in protest candidate!

YouTube - The Great Iron Sheik on Sirius XM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HbiE5K87ZA)

[InterestedParticipant]

More here in the forums on Sensitivity Training, which is the underlying technique that the CA Legislature is using...

Throwing Off Corporate Political Correctness
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=206247

Killing Our Love of Country
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=180052

Must read article (http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Sensitivity_International.htm) on Sensitivity Training in our Educational System. Clips from article follow:

In the year 1951 the National Association for Mental Health, part of Health, Education & Welfare, and subordinate to UNESCO and WHO, announced:

"The principles of mental health cannot be successfully furthered unless there is acceptance or the concept of world government."

And...

"Our chief problem is . . . how individual and group resistance to change can be overcome."

And...as the late Congressman Usher L. Burdick put it:

"To bring this country into line to accept world government, many things must be
done by the U.N. and her agencies, such as UNESCO. First of all, love of country is
found by these conspirators to be very deep and hard to destroy. Here UNESCO
comes into play, to teach these children, with specially trained teachers, that love of country interferes, with loyalty to a world organization, that they must transfer their loyalty to a world organization."

The Roots of Political Correctness
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=219917

The Roots of Political Correctness
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by William S. Lind

In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of “Political Correctness.” But what exactly is Political Correctness?

Political Correctness is cultural Marxism, Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. Its history goes back not to the 1960s but to World War I. Before 1914, Marxist theory said that if a major war broke out in Europe, the workers of every country would join together in a revolution to overthrow capitalism and replace it with international socialism. But when war came, that did not happen. What had gone wrong?

Two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary, independently came up with the same answer. They said that Western culture and the Christian religion had so “blinded” the working class to its true (Marxist) class interests that Communism was impossible in the West until traditional culture and Christianity were destroyed. When Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bela Kun Bolshevik government in Hungary in 1919, one of his first acts was introducing sex education into the Hungarian schools. He knew that destroying traditional sexual morals would be a major step toward destroying Western culture itself.

Lukacs became a major influence on a Marxist think tank established in 1923 at Frankfurt University in Germany, the Institute for Social Research, commonly known as the Frankfurt School. When Max Horkheimer took over as director of the Frankfurt School in 1930, he set about in earnest to do Lukacs’ bidding by translating Marxism from economic into cultural terms. Other Frankfurt School members devoted to this intellectually difficult task were Theodor Adorno, Eric Fromm, Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse. Theirs was not the Marxism of the Soviet Union - Moscow considered them heretics - but it was Marxism nonetheless.

The Frankfurt School’s key to success was crossing Marx with Freud. They argued that just as under capitalism everyone lived in a state of economic oppression, so under Western culture people lived under psychological repression. From psychology they also drew the technique of psychological conditioning. Want to “normalize” homosexuality? Just show television program after television program where the only normal-seeming white male is homosexual.

In 1933 the Frankfurt School moved from Germany to New York City. There, its products included “critical theory,” which demands constant, destructive criticism of every traditional social institution, starting with the family. It also created a series of “studies in prejudice,” culminating in Adorno’s immensely influential book, The Authoritarian Personality, which argued that anyone who defends traditional culture is a “fascist” and also mentally ill. That is why anyone who now dares defy “PC” gets sent to “sensitivity training,” which is psychological conditioning designed to produce submission.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Herbert Marcuse translated the abstruse work of the other Frankfurt School thinkers into books college students could understand, such as Eros and Civilization, which became the Bible of the New Left in the 1960s. Marcuse injected the Frankfurt School’s cultural Marxism into the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now that generation’s ideology. We know it as “multiculturalism,” “diversity” or just Political Correctness.

That is the dirty little secret of Political Correctness, folks: it is a form of Marxism. If the average American knew that, I suspect Political Correctness would be in serious trouble.

The Ft. Hood killings raise an interesting question: why would Marxists of any variety come to the support of Islam? After all, if the Islamics took over, they would cut Marxists’ throats even before they cut the throats of Christians and Jews. The answer is that cultural Marxism will ally with any force that helps it to achieve its goals, destroying Western culture and Christianity.

Obviously, there is far more to the history of the Frankfurt School and its creation of Political Correctness than I can cover in a short column. This is just a bare-bones outline. For those who want to learn more (and I hope you do), you can find a short book on the subject, which I edited, on the website of the Free Congress Foundation (www.freecongress.org). Free Congress also produced a short video documentary history of the Frankfurt School, which I’m told is available on Youtube (look under Frankfurt School or under my name). The video is especially valuable because we interviewed the principal American expert on the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay, who was then the chairman of the History Department at Berkeley (and obviously no conservative). He spills the beans.

Most people in the U. S. military hate Political Correctness, but they don’t know how to fight it. The way to fight it is to find out what it really is, and make sure all your friends find out too. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism, which is to say intellectual Soylent Green. Here more than in anything else, knowledge is a weapon!

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/11/19/the-roots-of-political-correctness/

[Fox McCloud]

It's Sensitivity Training, or what we've been indoctrinated to call Political Correctness. It's highly manipulative, and an extreme threat do individual liberties.

Look it up!

cussing has little to nothing to do with political correctness...

[InterestedParticipant]

cussing has little to nothing to do with political correctness...
Sensitivity Training, Political Correctness, and legislation encouraging cuss-free language are all techniques employed to manage, and thereby, control behavior. How is control of the public's behavior consistent with a society built on individual liberty? And where does the state government get the power to pass such proclamations?

[Minlawc]

I guess it's California's cuss-a-lot week now.

[johngr]

How is control of the public's behavior consistent with a society built on individual liberty? And where does the state government get the power to pass such proclamations?

Tin star-shaped badges. They're magical.

[johngr]

cussing has little to nothing to do with political correctness...

Not on the surface, perhaps. But the bedrock of political correctness, so far as techniques go, lies in language prohibition, obfuscating semantic changes and euphemism/dysphemism, the latter depending on what the cultural Marxists want to encourage/gloss over or discourage.

As an example, the originally connotation-free word Negro has become a slur because it establishes racial difference, something which ostensibly doesn't exist.

[mczerone]

While I don't have the full text of the bill before me, if it does exactly as the article says, I really have no problem with it, at all...it's just a recommendation/guideline to do "X"; but you're not legally bound to do "X" and won't be punished if you don't.

It'd be like if our Federal Congress passed a law establishing, for 2 weeks a "Donate to Haiti" effort, that encouraged people to donate money via charities to help out the Haiti, but yet it cost the tax-payers nothing, it isn't forced, and ultimately it does nothing (but make a collective statement).

basically it's just a collective statement on something, and nothing more...I have no problem with these at all, as long as they're not legally binding (Ron Paul has voted on quite a few of these in the past....collective statements of congratulations, etc).

You're right. I'd rather pay those who claim to be my representatives to do absolutely nothing all the time, than pass any well-intentioned laws.

Why don't they do something doubleplus good and vote that there should be no stealing for a week, and reduce ALL taxes to zero for a week?

[johngr]

I guess it's California's cuss-a-lot week now.

Neither obey their edicts nor react against them. Just laugh in their faces.

[RideTheDirt]

I foresee many f bombs

[Dreamofunity]

YouTube - NCC Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTNv2dOBFJk)

I believe you have this wonderful creation from god to thank.