Talk:For The Children (politics)
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This article was nominated for deletion on 15 December 2006. The result of the discussion was keep. |
An actual citable example of the use of the phrase would be better. It strikes me it is used less by politicians than by advocacy groups as a mocking of policies with which they disagree.Shsilver 15:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
- "for the children" was the actual phrase used by Janet Reno to justify the raid on the Branch Davidian church.
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[edit] Isn't it Ironic?
Look what came out just a few months after I wrote the original entry. It even comes complete with an Orwellian title about 'children'...
From the Washington Post:
"In March, the House passed the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act.
Under the broad-ranging bill, DNA profiles provided voluntarily, for example, in a dragnet, would for the first time become a permanent part of the national database. People arrested would lose the right to expunge their samples if they were exonerated or charges were dropped. And the government could take DNA from citizens not arrested but simply detained."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201648_pf.html Rearden Metal 09:01, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] CSD/Possible redirect?
This sort of thing does exist in the general interest. See "Think of the children!", a popular phrase that means about the same thing. 68.39.174.238 23:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Logic section
The Logic section seems to be very confusing, not following a clear order. And what's with the "think of the diapers" bit at the end? ...that looks like vandalism to me. It has stayed that way across a good number of edits, so I left it as it is for now. Still, the rest is sort of hard to follow. Error792 07:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Do we really need a citation to prove that people want to protect children? That seems silly.
[edit] Too many boxes at the top of the article
This article is a an article about a very important political thing, but too many boxes on the top may discourage people from reading it. See my essay WP:RDAL, can someone reduce the number of boxes? Thanks! Wooyi 22:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
