Walter Olson ponders if CPSIA is handing the GOP an issue. He notes an interesting post recently added to The Common Room blog; Walter writes:
The movement to protest and reform or repeal CPSIA, as she notes, is truly diverse ideologically, politically, and in almost every other way: it brings together persons of astoundingly disparate views and manners of living. On the other hand — as she demonstrates by citing particulars of the news coverage a year or two back — the maneuvering that got CPSIA passed in the first place was remarkable for its jealous partisanship, something easily overlooked in retrospect given the near-unanimous eventual vote in favor of the law.
Read the whole thing, here.
And speaking of CPSIA, my recent “2009: A Book Banning Odyssey” video is now up on YouTube, for those who prefer (or whose Internet connections prefer) that video style.
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1. Wacky Hermit:Thank you for continuing to post on this important issue, Ed!
I would like to encourage your readers to attend the Amend CPSIA rally on April 1 (no joke) at 10 am Eastern time. It is being held physically in Washington DC at the Capitol Building, but it is also an interactive internet rally which will be streaming live. As far as I know it is the first rally at the Capitol to be broadcast interactively via the internet.
Details can be found at http://www.amendthecpsia.com .
Mar 30, 2009 - 7:40 am 2. Justin Case:This is how the American Fascist Party, aka the Democrat Party, does things.
They don’t burn the books.
They make you burn them.
They don’t come and take the guns at first.
They make you bring them in.
They rely on the law-abiding nature of Republicans to further their plot.
So we face the simple, impossible choice of our forefathers.
Resist or die.
Personally, I prefer that to the alternative of “wait until it’s too late, then resist AND die.”
There’s only one reason this law was passed and it had nothing to do with safety.
Only books written by liberals in the last 20 years are allowed in America.
Didn’t you know?
They’ll get to Coulter’s books later. Right now, they’re too busy preserving communism.
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