Surething,
This is very upsetting. After my response to you early this am, I called the Dallas office of C.O.N.N.E.D. to request more information and spoke with a lovely woman who initially was polite and helpful. However, when I began to ask her about how they planned to balance constitutional rights with censorship, she became more and more agitated. And when I mentioned that Satanists had rights, too, she became almost abusive. By the end of our conversation, I was trying to remember if I'd given her my name out of fear she was going to report me as an unfit parent because my children are allowed on their computers unsupervised. When she asked for my address and phone number, I hung up, although they may have caller I.D.
I have no idea about the goal statements on the national level, which sounded fairly moderate in the article, but here in the Bible Belt, C.O.N.N.E.D.'s intentions are quite clear. Unless we agree with them, we will be targeted as unfit guardians of our children's moral development.
I have a call in now to Mr. Nemin at his Washington office, although I'm not optimistic about it being returned. I have also contacted the governor's office and my state representatives in Austin to see if they are aware of this group's alarmingly extremist stance.
I'm still shaking. Should I answer the phone? |
