Democracy At Work AHF Gets Measure Requiring Condom Use On Ballot
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By MikeSouth
November 30th, 2011
"Lets vote on it, this is a Democracy"
I remember hearing that throughout my school years, despite the fact that grammar school classrooms were authoritarian dictatorships, every now and then we'd get to vote on some irrelevant issue like do we want to spend the paper sale money on a Christmas tree or a wreath for the classroom door, we never voted on anything like should homework be optional. The teacher knew all too well how that would go, so it never made the ballot. Thus is the nature of a true Democracy, it's really just mob rule.
Now imagine if the whole school got to vote on whether our classroom had a tree or a wreath, and what if the majority f the REST of the school were Jewish, and they could vote us Hanukkah Lights instead. Even if we are all Muslims....You get my drift here.
The Aids Healthcare Foundation has gotten the required signatures to put mandatory condom use in porn shot in L.A. County on the ballot. So now instead of being an industry issue, it's going to be at the hands of the voters, many of whom, as in any voter initiative, have no real understanding of the issue.
On the flip side you could argue that this is a public health issue and as such, should be subject to government oversight.
Regardless the bottom line is that The people of L.A. County are going to choose what is permissible for a small group of people that they have no direct interest in.
Vote Libertarian.....