The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4859   Message #27103
Posted By: Barry Finn
02-May-98 - 11:26 PM
Thread Name: Objectionable Material - The sequel
Subject: RE: Objectionable Material - The sequel
Chet, these words, 'are' how some communities feel, it certainly was in my neighbood. By the age of 10 I was beaten by police for asking directions in the subway, the rag tag kid that I was, was somewhere he didn't belong, I watched them (police) with their hands out demanding $5 to take my younger sister to the hospital in an emergency or rot and I watched more, as I got older, put money in their pockets & look the other way, while their partners sold dope to support their own habbits. This was the norm where I came from. No, I would not fogive Hitler, he chose his life by his own actions, no matter what the reasons, I would think it better to correct & heal the sick society that spawned the monsters that were part of that atrocity as well as those that stood by & let it happen by just watching, there are those who say never again, we will not let the world forget (it still happens elsewhere). I don't hate cops, it's like Art's ying & yang, some good some not so good, it's the breeding ground that smells fowl. All you from the 60's remember the words "every cop is a criminal & all the sinners saints", not so but their was a push for banning it from the airways, is this that much different, or do we grow stiff with age & comfort, & do we no longer have a sympathetic eye for those who can & sometimes do take the fall for all of society's ills. I don't think it's artistically worth spit but it's a form of speech, even if it's as scary to us as the US Constitution was the the Brittish, & they eventually forgave us, but those words were a forwarning of what was wanted. I would prefer these words, that are less damaging, than the scenes not censored on the movies & TV, which dehumanizes my daughter & wife's gender, so that some would think that to abuse is to amuse, & of the multiple mutilations that desensitizes a human into eventually excepting this gore as a form of art, sorry Art. I don't remember which serial killer said don't let the kids watch TV, my 8 year old boy changes the station, & tells me that what was just played was racist, he takes more responsibility for his child like actions than what I think most give us humans credit for. The gun kills it's intended target but it's the hand that pulled the trigger that's responsible for the life of the victim (as opposed to "it's not the gun that kills but people") in the same light it's not the song that kills, it's people. There's talk about whales, I see news blurps that cover the plight of whales, fur bearing creatures, deers & mose loose in town, some rescue of a treed cat, done with more sensitivity than a poor child lost or raped, or the death of a rich princess. I just really feel that the censoring of a song is very cheap place to start, in the scope of what's out there. Barry