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I brought this up elsewhere in relation to, specifically, MTV's new gay-oriented network. I've been thinking about it for a while and I'm curious as to how folks here in this forum would respond to it.

I've tried to phrase my comment in a way that does not bias or load the discussion too much but does reflect my own initial thoughts on the more general subject.

Here's the comment:

"As witnessed by the recent threats against Madonna and her family by Palestinian terrorists, I sense a disconnect between the culturally liberative forces in the Free World that champion the freedom of expression to actively promote, on a global basis, the very cultural values that cause the Islamo-fascist world to hate us and pledge itself to the cause of our destruction and the awareness of those forces of cultural liberation as regards what is necessary in a strategic way to actually secure and defend those values against their sworn enemies."

Fact is, historically - as I have been an artist for more years than I have been anything else - most of my friends are still very liberal/radical. I believe this "disconnect" is not really being aired out very well among folks who espouse the very things that are hated most vehemently by our current and future radical Islamic enemies. How do you reconcile the fact that the creations of our cultural milieu need to be defended against those who would see them as the very reasons why we should be obliterated from the face of the earth? Can we continue to bait the vicious dog without arming ourselves to the teeth?

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