carved angel

Toys That Get Kids Used to Ideas:

You see, it all came to a head in the toy store. This was the week that our congress and the president intervened in the Terri Schiavo case to save her life while we continued to blast away at the Iraqis. The week we sold two dozen F16s to Pakistan.
I got to thinking of Randall Terry and his followers demonstrating around Terri Schiavo and wondered how many of these right-to-lifers took to the streets to protest the war and the killing of over 1500 U.S. soldiers and over 100,000 Iraqis? Did they protest the continual use of our taxpayer money to build and sell more and newer lethal weapons which have no other use than to be anti-life? Did they protest the sale of F16s to Pakistan? How about Abu Ghraib? How about corporations that pollute our air and water and kill citizens?

i totally agree with this bit, though i have to say i didn't agree with the entire piece. i played with my friends' g.i. joes and transformers (wasn't allowed to have them, myself) when i was a kid, and i'm definitely anti-war. it's not the toys and games that kids play with, but what the child's parents teach them about the world. a parent has to pay attention to their kids, and not leave them with video games and the tv as babysitters. you can bet that zoe will know what her mum thinks about current events, anyway.