The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26790   Message #326192
Posted By: Lepus Rex
24-Oct-00 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: PMRC
Subject: RE: PMRC
Matt, only if GWAR came out afterwards and... Oh, use your imagination. I saw what they did to Clinton, Bush Sr, and the Pope back on their Cam-PAIN tour, and it wasn't kind...

Ebbie and Whistle Stop, that's fine, if you don't mind the government deciding FOR you what's decent and what's not. The PMRC wanted cds with 'occult' themes labelled with an 'O,' for instance, which I'd say violates the rights of people who's religions involve so-called 'occult' practices, and who's music would have likely been labelled with an 'O' if that particular plan had been implemented. Would you have approved if the PMRC wanted to label Jewish musicians' cds with a little star of David warning label, to warn Christian parents that their children might be sucked into the wild world of Judaism? I'm sure you wouldn't have.

Groups such as the PMRC are doomed to failure. Other than locking your kids up in the cellar, there's no way you can stop them from listening to whatever they desire to listen to. Music's not going to 'turn them bad,' anyways. Whenever some flawed little insect shoots up his high school, their lazy, ineffective parents always blame the music. "Oh, he was so normal and athletic until he listened to MARILYN MANSON!: ... Some people are born scum. Others are raised scum. I've never met any scum who got that way because the listened to scummy music. They're usualy drawn to it because they're dicks to begin with. Bleh...

---Lepus Rex