Posted on 06/18/2004 8:52:52 AM PDT by NYer
Censorship of salacious conduct isn't even related to that, and it is GOOD.
That's what the framers of the US Constitution intended, and most Americans agreed with, until the 1960s.
"That's what the framers of the US Constitution intended, and most Americans agreed with, until the 1960s."
Exchange I had with a DOD lawyer a couple of years ago:
Me: "Surely original intent defines the center."
He: "Original intent is just a buzzword of the religious right."
Yes. The horrific moral decadence of the past century may be compared to tossing a pebble into a pond and watching the ripples fan out: It started on the European continent, then English-speaking nations with exception of the US, then the US, then east Asia and now its finally spread to India. Even many Muslims have been influenced.
Peaceful protests and boycotts for something you believe are good. Brownshirt tactics amd vandalizing private property are bad, regardless of the cause.
I daresay he doesn't care a rip with the Constitution, or common decency, says. They're only hindrances.
BYOP
"Brownshirt tactics amd vandalizing private property are bad, regardless of the cause."
Like, say, the Boston Tea Party?
An indie filmmaker. The more people hate it, the better it is.
Sounds like some American movies of the 50's and 60's. There was one starring Sandy Dennis, same theme (two women together then a man enters the picture to cause confusion.) You wouldn't see that theme in modern-day Hollywood.
"Women make both the manners and the morals of a people. Neither rises higher than the gauge which women set in a community...Where a woman has bad manners, it always has in it an element of vulgarity which is more painful than it could be in a man. The result will be a society hopelessly vulgarized...with no end but to sink in an ever deeper abyss of vulgarity." -- Thomas Nelson Page, 1911
OK, brownshirt tactics and vandalizing private property are almost always bad.
You think the oppression of the colonies by England is on the same level of putting out a movie?
"You think the oppression of the colonies by England is on the same level of putting out a movie?"
I think what the liberals are doing to our civilization--abortion, forced acceptance of homosexuality, suppression of religion, ubiquitous depravity--is **at least** as bad as the oppression of the colonies by England, and is headed for far worse extremes.
And some Jewish people saw anti-semetism in The Passion of Christ. Would they be justified in vandalizing the cinemas that showed it?
"And some Jewish people saw anti-semetism in The Passion of Christ. Would they be justified in vandalizing the cinemas that showed it?"
No, see, that's the kicker. You not only have to "see" something; you have to be right about it.
Pushing an old lady out of the path of a speeding bus is an entirely different thing from pushing an old lady into the path of a speeding bus.
Liberals vandalizing theaters showing The Passion is not morally equivalent to decent people vandalizing a theater showing Farenheit 9/11.
Be careful. The only spot you see is the only one not covered by 3 inch labadore retriever type hair.
So some people are in the right to vandalize theaters, and some people are in the wrong. Operationally, government will have to decide, then, who's right to vandalize theaters, and who should be arrested for doing so. Correct?
"Operationally, government will have to decide, then, who's right to vandalize theaters, and who should be arrested for doing so. Correct?"
Not necessarily. In the case of the Boston Tea Party, King George was the government.
Try to see vandalizing theaters as a way to outshout the vocal minority that has been getting its way for so long.
Indeed. So attempting to censor those who are protesting against a certain book or film would be wrong. (Not saying you would do that.)
Alright, I'll stir the pot: Boston Tea Party.
Please remove my post 39. Someone beat me to it and I didn't see it.
Thanks
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