This week more than any other has convinced me the Western world has gone mad in a molly coddled nanny state nightmare.
Let’s start off with the land of the ‘free’ and Super Bowl censorship. Even after more than four decades of entertaining millions of people around the globe, the Rolling Stones still find themselves having to comply with archaic censorship coupled with a misguided and outdated sense of morality. Lyrics in Start Me Up and Rough Justice were cut, while (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction was left intact, despite the fact that none of these songs contain any lyric that doest comply with American broadcast codes and frequently appear on mainstream T.V.
ABC & the NFL both defended their action saying that the Stones agreed to the censorship but agreeing to comply with it and agreeing to the action itself seam to be disparate issues as the band refuted this claim and called the censorship "unnecessary" and "ridiculous".
Knee jerk reaction anyone? Seams like everyone is walking on eggshells in order to avoid upsetting the Christian fundamentalist applecart. You remember fundamentalists? the evil people we wage war on to depose? :-)
Jumping across the pond we have Mr.Bliar and his very own mish mash – the newly watered down Religious Hatred Law. In principle it’s all well and good, making it a criminal offence to incite religious hatred and intolerance through any media which I’m sure you’d agree is all good. Except for the fact that it is apparently weighed down by the yoke of positive discrimination. In the red corner we have the British National Party and their leader Nick Griffin, in court for violating the new law by being caught on film for saying that Islam was a "wicked vicious faith" and for saying "Let's show these extremists the door". The case collapsed today because of a hung jury but the two accused face a retrial in 3-4 months.
In the same week we have young Islamic extremists protesting outside the Danish embassy in London dressed up as suicide bombers and carrying placards threatening to decapitate anyone who mocks their religion. The outcome of this? One of the demonstrators sent back to prison for an unrelated violation of his parole for drugs charges.
Spot the disparities here at all? So all we have ended up with a law more likely to incite religious intolerance than it is to punish it. All this coupled with Bliar’s insistence that as Prime Minister he doesn’t require the approval of either Parliament or the British people before taking the whole country to war leads me to believe our fate is fully in the hands of idiots. Are we not big and bad enough to make our own decisions as to what is right and correct to say, watch or indeed how to behave without people with an obviously miniscule grasp on reality telling us what we should and shouldn’t do?
Let’s start off with the land of the ‘free’ and Super Bowl censorship. Even after more than four decades of entertaining millions of people around the globe, the Rolling Stones still find themselves having to comply with archaic censorship coupled with a misguided and outdated sense of morality. Lyrics in Start Me Up and Rough Justice were cut, while (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction was left intact, despite the fact that none of these songs contain any lyric that doest comply with American broadcast codes and frequently appear on mainstream T.V.
ABC & the NFL both defended their action saying that the Stones agreed to the censorship but agreeing to comply with it and agreeing to the action itself seam to be disparate issues as the band refuted this claim and called the censorship "unnecessary" and "ridiculous".
Knee jerk reaction anyone? Seams like everyone is walking on eggshells in order to avoid upsetting the Christian fundamentalist applecart. You remember fundamentalists? the evil people we wage war on to depose? :-)
Jumping across the pond we have Mr.Bliar and his very own mish mash – the newly watered down Religious Hatred Law. In principle it’s all well and good, making it a criminal offence to incite religious hatred and intolerance through any media which I’m sure you’d agree is all good. Except for the fact that it is apparently weighed down by the yoke of positive discrimination. In the red corner we have the British National Party and their leader Nick Griffin, in court for violating the new law by being caught on film for saying that Islam was a "wicked vicious faith" and for saying "Let's show these extremists the door". The case collapsed today because of a hung jury but the two accused face a retrial in 3-4 months.
In the same week we have young Islamic extremists protesting outside the Danish embassy in London dressed up as suicide bombers and carrying placards threatening to decapitate anyone who mocks their religion. The outcome of this? One of the demonstrators sent back to prison for an unrelated violation of his parole for drugs charges.
Spot the disparities here at all? So all we have ended up with a law more likely to incite religious intolerance than it is to punish it. All this coupled with Bliar’s insistence that as Prime Minister he doesn’t require the approval of either Parliament or the British people before taking the whole country to war leads me to believe our fate is fully in the hands of idiots. Are we not big and bad enough to make our own decisions as to what is right and correct to say, watch or indeed how to behave without people with an obviously miniscule grasp on reality telling us what we should and shouldn’t do?