Wednesday, February 16, 2005
"Congress shall make no law...
abridging the freedom of speech or of the press..."
Seems to me like they did—and now they’re just raising the stakes.
I don’t wanna see Janet’s wardrobe malfunction on TV any more than I wanna see her brother—ever. I also think it is a poor idea to have un-defined “crimes” that carry a half a million dollar penalty. I’m no lawyer and I refuse to play one on a blog so it may just be my poor research… But I can find no indication of any kind what, specifically, is covered by the term “obscene, indecent, or profane material .”
To me, the whole Scott Peterson case was indecent. The Michael Jackson thing is obscene, disgusting and creepy to the max. I shudder to think if I had little kids and, for myself, I turn off the raadio/TV every time they try to tell me about it, thereby missing their commercials. Good system, that free market. But, much ass* I loath the subject of MJ and his creepy SometimesLand escapades, I would not advocate the government demanding fat fines of any organization/individual talking about it—public airwaves or not.
What follows this? First, no saying the 7 Dirty Words [see George Carlin] Next, no talking about the seven words. Then no talking about not talking about the seven words?!?!
The whole world is not meant to be safe for a six year old. There are subjects that adults must talk about and that are for adults only—not only sexual content, but a vast range of ideas and emotions that a six year old is not ready to comprehend or cope with. This is why children have parents—because no matter what we legislate, the world will never be a safe place for a six year old to go unaccompanied, unguided and unparented.
Trying to legislate that is very unwise. Trying to legislate it without describing exactly and specifically what is outlawed is just crazymaking. And a big fat invitation for petty bureaucracy morphing into fascist control.
Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
[* added after profreading: would that little typo get me a $500,000 fine?!?]
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