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   Aje RavenStar to usenet-2010@planetcobalt.net   
   Re: Florida Mother Protests Manga in Pub   
   10 Jul 10 11:09:22   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: whinebucket@comcast.net   
      
   On 10 Jul 2010 14:18:58 GMT, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers   
    wrote:   
      
   >In rec.arts.anime.misc dumpster4@hotmail.com wrote:   
   >> "A mother in Crestview, Florida protested the availability of mature   
   >> manga at her city's public library and claimed her teenage son was   
   >> negatively affected after picking up a volume from the general   
   >> circulation shelves. The parent, Margaret Barbaree, said that the   
   >> manga had adult themes which she described as "graphic" and   
   >> "shocking." Barbaree is the founder of a citizens group called Protect   
   >> Our Children, ..."   
      
   >   
   >Yeah, some people need to grow a brain. Tell news.   
      
   The way her complaint reads to me, the kid was trying to, and she   
   caught him in the act.  I hate reporters that cut off the full name of   
   the group involved - in this case, Protect Our Children From Anything   
   Not Dumbed Down.  Someone needs to send this kid a crate of Playboys   
   to camoflauge and distract her from his real collection .   
      
   (I'll also put $20 on the line that if this woman was given a shot of   
   Sodium P, she'd admit that what got her bent out of shape was not the   
   'shocking, graphic adult themes', but presentation of a different   
   faith in a positive light).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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