Re:ESR should go out sometimes (Score 1)

You should read some proper newspapers and try thinking a touch harder about your examples: "It was just a year or so ago that the UK tried to institute mandatory bedtimes for all school children. The attempt failed, not because it was seen as something outside the purview of government (as it would be in the US), but because the government lacked the will to put the plan into effect over the objections of the parents." Stuff and Nonsense. They never tried any such thing. "Another example is the fate of Scientology in Germany. As despicable as I find Scientology to be, illegalizing a religion is a degree of governmental intrusion into people's lives that Americans simply would not accept - although, thanks to our radically socialist president, they are getting inured to such things. I fear for the future." More stuff and nonsense. In Germany there were moves to have Scientology's tax status as a religion changed, by declaring that Scientology was not a religion but a business. It doesn't follow that an organisation is a religion just because it says it does, especially when it makes millions selling products and services. Other wise Mercedes-Benz would just change it's name to the Church of Mercedes Benz and save lot's of DMs. In Bavaria there were also moves to have Scientologists removed from Goverment posts as memebership of the church of scientology was deemed incompatible with being an employee of the state. Similar things have happened in the USA as well, or does the Pentagon employ communists these days ?