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Originally Posted by KMA-628
Gawd this is getting old. How do you justify trying to define an entire populace based on the actions of a lunatic fringe?
99.8% of the complaints filed with the FCC are from one, miniscule religious organization that most people don't even care about.
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Well, first of all, if it's "getting old" then don't read my posts and move along.
Secondly, I prefaced my statement with an apology as I knew it would possibly annoy some people.
Thirdly, unbeknownst to you and everyone else who read the initial post, I was drunk when I wrote this and my usual attempts to temper natural human exasperation were probably reduced.
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And of course, the obvious aspects to this are being entirely ignored:
1) We have a free enough society that these people can spout whatever they want without fear of retribution. Yet, most everyone here wants to quell the freedoms that don't match their own beliefs.
2) The FCC has to respond to the complaint; it doesn't mean they will find in favor of it. Imagine if the FCC ignored any complaints?
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I don't disagree.
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In other words, there is nothing to see here, move along folks.
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Well, there's obviously enough to create a two page thread in the time it takes me to go out, get drunk with my friends, come home, read a story, post to TFP, get up the following morning and fly to Sydney...
All about 36 to 48 hours.
So it's obviously of sufficient enough interest to generate at least some debate. Feel free to move along yourself though...
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We should be proud in the fact that we live in a place where even the idiots have free speach.
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I get so tired of hearing this kind of comment, bandied about as if America was the only country with freedoms. In fact, the US has
more restrictive publicly accessible airwaves than most "Western" countries. But that's a whole different issue.
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Should we define all Irish people based on their lunatic fringe? Nope.
Should we define all Austrailians based on their lunatic fringe? Nope.
Why are we trying to define Americans by the lunatic fringe(s) that we have?
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We're not.
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Or....are we just running out of thread ideas in the Politics Forum?
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What was the point of that last comment?
It's created a lot more debate than many other topics so far this week.
Mr Mephisto