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globe, the Rolling Stones still find themselves having to comply with archaic censorship coupled with a misguided and outdated sense of morality.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?

Thank you.. About time someone told the truth..

Well I'd like to say what I feel about all this, but sadly find myself censoring it and taking the bang out of it. I have a T shirt I had made YEARS ago that has an American flag on the back and on the front says "Censorship is..." flip to the back (under the flag) to read "Un-F*cking American"!!! It has been my staple at every concert I have ever gone to.

Now as for the Stones and the Superbowl...I am a die-hard Stones fan and was singing along with them on start me up until it came to...you make a dead man come...and low and behold...the dead man it seemed, remained dead. I was pissed. I blame miss newly chunked up Janet and her Wardrobe malfunction of a few years back. It's the Stones...they've given us 40 something years of hard rocking pelvis thrusting action. And after 40 years, they are still censored??!!

I can only hope that God sees fit to send a lightning bolt to the asses of the Oh-so-Holy (and hypocritical) extremists of the Christian Coalition. This is not a bash of Christians, it is a bash of those who are so power hungry that they buy a President so that they may rule their kingdom, and do so in the name of Christianity. Censorship should be left to the PEOPLE to decide. My idea of morality and the next person's idea may not be the same. You cannot wonder bread the world. The world has becoma an amazing place because of the diversity of ethnic backgrounds, religions, and all that. You cannot cookie cutter a world. But damn, if they ain't a trying!!!

(*scribbles down .. "You can not Wonder Bread the world" .. ducks out the back*)

But hold on...we are the idiots that put them there;-)

Then we can take them out!! Who is with me?!?

*sounds of glass breaking and Samatar being dragged off to waiting secret police van, kicking and screaming*

I'm with you, guys!!!

Sam - just make sure you have a wardrobe malfunction on the way into the van or we will never get to here about your struggle against oppression ;-)

In the police van I assume?

but of course

I'll have one too.. That will totally distract them.

Hey...I didn't put them there...don't BLAME me!!!
Don't worry guys...I have a cabin in the mountains stocked with SPAM and B-Movies...we can sit it out until the idiots are thrown out of office!!! We can live the life of all these Survivalists...like Ted Nugent...growing our own crops, with our own power sources...
Who's with me????? Phil...come on, it's stocked with SPAM...

So long as Ted isn't there..

Yeah .. I coulda warned you about Ann and Ted .. but I didn't see the whole "Ted" mention coming from far enough away

Ann left Ted and I standing out on her front porch during christmas dinner .. I mean, so what if we were a couple hours late .. you don't stop listening for the door when you're expecting guests .. it's not right

It was Christmas fer cryin out loud ... I told you I was bringing him ..

oh! .. I see my mistake now


My Humble appologies to the host of this thread .. Mr. C

You know, with some of the ragulations and laws coming in... makes you wonder just how far behind a "Big Brother" society will be.

I will go with you Jenn..do you have plenty of computers with high speed access where the cabin is? We cannot miss our favorite website while we are waiting..............................and if Spam is there. count Phil in! :-)

too busy to eat spam - i'll man the gun turrets to keep the tree huggers at bay.

well, maybe someone could mix up a batch of Spam Pasties to bring up to the turrets.
:o)

Pasties? ... will that be necessary? .. this is about censorship, afterall, and you bring pasties to the mix

perhaps if they were armored pasties .. to deflect arrows

;o)

Does that mean I'll be cooking? Cos most of the stuff I make is as strong as titanium and as flamable as asbestos...

I come from a country where the best protestor we've ever had was a dude dressed up as a giant sheep who hugged the prime minister before being thrown in jail.
Sorry, I meant GAOL ;) I feel like lamb now....

Now Keifer.. I told you, you had to knock of you wanted in.. Shooting guns and honking horns does not get you inside my house.. I thought it was the neighbor kids..

Political correctness is especially good for you if your a full time looser celebrity like young mr.pete doherty - lead singer of the band Babyshambles. Let off in court today with a 12 month community service order after what is, I believe, his 9th arrest for a variety of offences including burglary, assault, extortion, violating previous community and rehabilitation orders and innumerate occasions of possession of class A drugs. Apparently, prison isn’t the right place for this sensitive young flower as he is a victim of the pressures of his fame. The chronic crack and heroin abuse/carrying flick knifes about is just a symptom of that. Bless.

Isn't that the way it is.. The rich and famous had such a difficult life..Poor things.. So deprived..
I would like to see them walk in my shoes..

not so much a case of political correctness as political interference as Congress tampers with the shaky oracle that is Wikipedia. Definitely a case of don't believe the hype :-)

I never believe anything..
The world as we knew it is coming to a tragic end..
Big Brother is here!!!

*ponders dwarf bread as a weapon*

I believe everything i'm told as a rule of thumb so I can confidently predict I will be in a state of perpetual dissapointment :-)

bugger

More celebrity Political Correctness as Britain's very own O.J.Simpson - Michael 'Do you fancy a dip?' Barrymoore gets away with murder. literally.

All it takes is fame and deep pockets..