I agree your first 3 "Fantasies" have been deemed wrong and have incurred governmemtal wrath. The 4th hasn't and won't because it is Biblical and religious (insert controlling people thru fear here).
BUT the saddest part is those who question why are being silenced, their platforms taken away or called extremists and therefore laughed at or ignored by the media (and they are the very ones who should be questioning the loudest).
On Stern's site you'll notice that our great GOP leaders in a government:
- who allows illegals (some of which could be terrorists) to come across our borders,
- who continue to "hide" taxes on things like phones, while giving tax cuts to the rich
- who continue to throw BILLIONS upon BILLIONS into a war while we cut social programs, the FDA and EPA
are spending time wanting to throw people like Stern and Opie and Anthony in jail........
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LINK: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/43961.htm
April 6, 2005 -- A major Congressional leader now says he wants to make broadcast indecency — the smutty talk that gets Howard Stern and Opie and Anthony into trouble — a criminal offense.
Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner III (R-Wis.) says criminal prosecution would be a more efficient way to enforce the indecency regulations.
"I'd prefer using the criminal process rather than the regulatory process," Sensenbrenner said this week at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference in San Francisco.
The current system — in which the FCC fines a station for violating the regulations — isn't working, he said.
"People who are in flagrant disregard should face a criminal process rather than a regulator process," Sensenbrenner said. "That is the way to go. Aim the cannon specifically at the people committing the offenses, rather than the blunderbuss approach."
Sensenbrenner could not say immediately how the law would work.
The FCC has fined CBS for the infamous Janet Jackson-Super Bowl incident and Stern for a too-graphic description of sexual acts on his radio show.
It was unclear how much support Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has for a such a drastic change in the law.
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And our great GOP leaders (who go under this guise of less government conservatism) are talking about regulating what can be seen and heard on PAY cable and satelite stations..... so much so that the cable industry will probably remove Stern's show from E!......
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LINK: http://billboardradiomonitor.com/rad..._id=1000866255
Comcast Considers Dropping Stern's E! Show
April 05, 2005
By Paul Heine
Even as he moves to satellite radio to escape the clutches of federal regulators, Howard Stern may still indirectly feel the teeth of the indecency cops. Comcast Corp., the nation’s largest cable TV provider, is considering dropping Stern’s E! Entertainment TV show when its Comcast contract expires this spring, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts is reportedly concerned that the presence of lightning rod Stern could cause lawmakers to take a closer look at indecency on cable TV.
In fact, cablers are frightened by the prospect of indecency restrictions being extended to their medium. Gathered in San Francisco for the annual National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. conference, several executives voiced concern about calls by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, to regulate indecency on paid subscription services like cable TV and satellite radio. “It’s scary,” one cable exec said, according to the Times.
With the exception of the squeaky clean Walt Disney Co., all of the media conglomerates that own the majority of the nation’s cable channels oppose widening indecency rules to include cable.
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How can these "conservatives" who believe in less government, who cry that they pay too much in taxes for social programs ...... ALLOW AND CONDONE (and by electing these scum sucking censorship pigs, you are doing just that) live with themselves. This GOP "Conservative" bullshit is just that...... they are censoring what "they" deem is offensive, and spending billions and billions on the enforcement....