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[Vogon_Glory]

In addition to the shut-down of public schools, there would be severe academic restrictions on surviving private and religious schools. Not only would there be roving individuals or organizations of censors, but roving bands of private censors would be allowed to monitor academicians, student organizations, libraries and archives for disapproved political or religious viewpoints or for supposedly "obscene" materials. These private organizations would not be funded by government, but would be deputized with governmental powers, and could operate with the power of the state behind it.

Also, similar bands of private censors would have the authority to peer into private homes to look out for unorthodox material or unorthodox practices, such as reading disapproved literature, making or displaying disapproved art, or unorthodox sex practices. Conservative activist Paul Weyrich has already called for the formation of this "Borned Agin' " version of George Orwell's Junior Spies.