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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
Yes, there is the argument that I do not need to eat a pile of doggy doo to know it tastes bad, BUT in this case many people would like to know what the fuss is all about - what set off the riots? So far I have only heard of one cartoon's description.
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I'm sorry but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what the fuss is all about, all you have to do turn the TV on.
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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
Notice how with a lot of newscasts today they give the preamble that what you are about to see may be gruesome, & then show the pic. The 11 o'clock news is loaded with pics of dead bodies, mass graves, offensive flag burnings. Newspapers in Toronto had no trouble printing a pic of the mom & son who drowned in their car here - I didn't need to see that.
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We're not talking about newscasts on TV we're talking about material being published in newspapers. That mom & son who drowned in the car, did you see that printed in any newspapers?
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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
So don't do anything for fear of tipping the cart. Don't show episodes of 24 with Muslim terrorists, take all copies of 'True Lies' off the shelf, don't show any historical German WW2 movie footage, don't show two men kissing, don't show the burning of the US flag, no more caracitures of GW Bush, Harper, Blair....hell the whole cast of SNL might as well start looking for a job right now! (Anyone catch their skit with Steve Martin addressing the Hamas victory party? )
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Tell me something, if you neighbour was a psychopath would you deliberataly do things to **** him off.
This whole damn thing is not to do with freedom of speech anymore, it's to do with acting responsibily.