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Racially intolerant white canadian cops and security and their henchmen claim to be despots; following parasitically in the footsteps of their american counterparts, and wilfully engage in their racial profiling of non-whites, in racial harassment of non-whites, and in racially dehumanizing attempts to racially harass non-whites through intimidating physically, mentally, and spiritually; portraying their racial hatred of non-whites through causing wilfull and dehumanizing disturbance to non-whites through using illegal wall-see-through technologies and audio-bugs on non-whites' homes; through listening and watching through the walls of non-whites' rented and owned homes, and through their internet and private telephones. The perpetuators of these evil deeds do this from their cars using illegal equipment slyly given to them by the unworthy cops, and then
accelerating their cars loudly and intimidatingly near non-whites' homes and driving intimidatingly in presence of non-whites on streets, making threatening u-turns, driving intimidatingly right up and over sidewalks when a non-white is on the sidewalk, and throwing their ugly bullying weight around, in their shameless acts of cowardice. It is all done slyly, supposedly smartly, however, they cannot fool all the people all the time. The cops also participate themselves to wail their sirens abusively everytime non-whites move and talk inside their rented and owned homes in daily routine living, in addition to having their henchmen, and often, using their non-white gutless henchmen in cars, transport, shopping centers, neighborhoods, etc, to commit these ugly harassing racially profiling
deeds at all times day and night. Using non-whites to engage in racial harassment of other non-whites is an obnoxiously evil sinister humanely disgraceful intelligent move of the whites well-known for their ugly divide and rule tactics through their non-white henchmen.

It's a shameful disgrace when the so called protectors of law turn into abusers of law themselves and throw the weight of their uniforms and law around as cowards. So, they and their henchmen, appear to be very law respecting on the outside; however, they network cowardly to commit sly acts of provocation to non-whites all the time, which is supposed to
be legally acceptable. Is watching through walls of non-whites homes, bugging their homes, working in networking syndicates against them, committing human rights and privacy violations against them, supposedly lawful for the whites? Who makes those laws that favor
only the whites? The law itself has racism in its clauses. The ugly inner dirt of the perpetuators of these evil deeds of racism do not deserve to step into religious institutions for their ugly deeds - such as, if you ain't white, you ain't right? Oh! Really? Nicely dressed, beautiful people, magnificient concrete jungles, clean roads and lawns, sweet polite talkers on the outside, full of ugly stench in their souls, that is the
cause of these racist policies that are outrightly biased against non-whites. What a shame!

Most of these ugly acts of dehumanizing racial profiling depict the cowardice of the doers of these deeds in the real sense, and are done at the behind the scenes insistence of the racially intolerant white cops through their frontline stooges. However, without physical evidence, the white cops, security, societies, and their henchmen are laughing sinisterly
at their heinous deeds and the legal system seems to support this evil through its inability to take action without physical evidence. Their racial profiling penetrates public transport systems, shops and stores to do all they can to make the non-whites feel unwelcome in their dehumanizing acts of racial profiling against non-whites and those who don't conform to their nonsense. The white cops, security, and white communities use their
henchmen who do just as they are told and from behind the safety cushion of their oil-guzzling, pollution creating, often dark-glassed vehicles to intimidate and harass non-whites in obnoxious racial profiling that reflects the immoral, despotic, and cowardly behaviour of racially intolerant white cops, security, communities and their dumb henchmen
who do just as they are told, fuelled as they are in their racial frenzy, thanks to the racially manipulative corporate controlled media.

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Racism is immoral and dehumanizing behaviour that reflects the "incapable to perform humanely" quality of those who are racist and are being watched from God's court above in ways they cannot be expected to be capable to perceive yet.

It's a shame when obnoxious stench of racism comes from people in so called rich countries. It's even more of a shame when words are twisted by media to influence young minds with lies. It's even more of a shame when so called authorities perpetuate racism and behave racistly and enforce racist policies and behaviour through intimidating means amidst outer sweet and polite talks. Racism seems to be prominent among so called white people in rich countries who cannot bear non-whites from other countries of origin. Planet Earth belongs to people of Earth. Highly educated people of high intellectual calibres, rich bosses and CEOs, etc, of rich countries are a blotch on humanity and their material levels when they
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I really wish that all Turks would take the time to educate themselves on Turkish history. This would allow them to want to make a change to their religious beliefs and consider converting back to the Christian faith as Turkey was originally. I have been to that country a few times, its amazing and breath taking. Great people, who do not need to fall into the Muslim world as to which they all have been doing. I always hoped one day that an individual from a different religion became part of the government. Maybe one day! I'm proud to have a Turkish background but I'm also glad I choose the Christian faith. God Bless

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Comedy Central

Maybe, in general, we have to see America ironically. In fact, maybe we should refer to America as "America". A high school student is not allowed to return to his school because he, wait for it, made fun of some of the teachers. I ask, perhaps naively, isn't this the entire point of high school? It certainly was for me.

"Carroll (The Book)," a 14-page publication, was modeled after comedian Jon Stewart's book "America (The Book)." The boy's version includes diagrams, profanity, photos and a picture of school Principal Deb Neumeyer on the cover.

I can just see the administration spluttering, 'Insubordination. This boy needs reprimanding. This could lead to terrorist activities later in life or worse. He could put an eye out.'

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America's future not completely in jeopardy

US law students (!) lead a very simple, very effective protest against the decline of American civil liberties. Bravo. (Lawyers are so cute when they still care.) (From BoingBoing)


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Turkish government set to be more progressive than Canadian

Pamuk's out of hot water. Turkey enters the 20th C.


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It's official: the CIA doesn't like books

Especially ones about the CIA.


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Turkey: trying to climb out of the ethical gutter

Progress is progress. Be happy to see something happening.


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Edited by author 12-22-2005 10:44 AM
Would you like some Greece on your Turkey?

Turkey has charged a publisher with insulting Turkishness. Apparently, the writer of the book, who is Greek and therefore unchargeable, suggested parts of Turkey were dirty. Who thinks up this stuff?

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HLS story true?

Was the story we linked to yesterday about a student being visited by Homeland Security agents over the borrowing of a book by Mao completely true? The reporter says so, but some blogger-types beg to differ. The realist in me says, what is truth? The conspiracy theorist in me says, smear job by HLS! Black Ops! Black Ops! Bork! Bork! Bork!


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All that learnin' is gonna get him inta some hat wah-tah...

A UMass student who requested Mao's Little Red Book through an inter-library loan gets a visit from Homeland Security. You know, my Yanky brethren, they'll be making movies about this time in 50 years and shaking their heads that nobody did anything sooner... (From Boing Boing)


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The year in menaces to free speech

Now this is the kind of end-of-year round-up we need. How about one dedicated to the top 10 political decisions that didn't cause a violent uprising? How would you choose?


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Edited by author 12-15-2005 12:24 PM
Pamuk on Pamuk

In a comment piece in the New Yorker, Pamuk lands right where you'd expect a novelist to land – right in the space between one and the other, simply observing.

As tomorrow’s novelists prepare to narrate the private lives of the new élites, they are no doubt expecting the West to criticize the limits that their states place on freedom of expression. But these days the lies about the war in Iraq and the reports of secret C.I.A. prisons have so damaged the West’s credibility in Turkey and in other nations that it is more and more difficult for people like me to make the case for true Western democracy in my part of the world.

If people are over-dramatising his case, which, after Goknar's views earlier might lead one to believe, it is not for want of compassion. It may be that it looks like an East-West symbolic trial, even though the defendent sees himself neither here nor there; it's a schoolyard dictum 'two wrongs don't make a right,' isn't it? Maybe, there isn't anything to do but stand by and witness. Now I'm going to curl up in bed and weep all day.

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So, Turkey wants to cover up their historical atrocities by limiting the free speech of its citizens. How medieval. How totalitarian.

Dear Turkey,

Please remove your 12th century head from your 12th century ass.

That is all.

Edited by author 12-14-2005 11:27 AM
Göknar on Pamuk

Pamuk's trial for allegedly blaspheming Turkishness is set for Friday. His English translator considers the outcome of the trial to be a 'harbinger for relations between the West and Muslim nations.' This worries me. It seems to me this is only so if the outcome is negative for Pamuk. A positive verdict will ostracize Turkey from certain other Muslim nations and potentially fuel the fire, no?

“Responses from within the E.U. during the trial will be symbolic, too,” Göknar said. “Politicians in E.U. countries could let Turkey work out its political freedoms or they could try to stir up resentment against Turkish immigrants in their countries and fuel  jingoism.”

Pamuk's got a roster of elite literary superstars behind him now, too. I hope this helps because things sure look ugly.

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I find it ironic that Phillip Pullman talks of free speech while trying to discredit and curb the writings of his superiors such as C.S. Lewis. The hatred comes from those who wish to "curb religious hatred," not from those practicing religion.

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Philip Pullman, Monica Ali, Philip Hensher and Salman Rushdie discuss proposed legislation "to curb religious hatred" and its possible threat to free speech.

The Enlightenment, in Europe, represented an escape from the power of religion to place limiting points on thought; in America, it represented an escape into the religious freedom of the New World - a move towards faith rather than away from it. Many Europeans now view the American combination of religion and nationalism as frightening.

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Hitler poem causes controversy

Who'd have thought? Well, this one, written from Hitler's perspective, was written by a 14-year-old and included in a UK school kids anthology. So a few people are angry. This is an important chance to teach kids about the power of art, history, and voice. What will the lesson be?


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Edited by author 11-08-2005 01:12 PM
Finally, the voice of reason

Moms in Frago are up in arms about a book they want to have removed from the curriculum. No, it isn't a depiction of same-sex marriage. No, it isn't swearing. It's just that it's kinda bloody and rather badly written. How the heck a Grisham book got on a literature course is beyond me.

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Maud on the patriot act

Maud updates us on some changes to the Patriot Act. Without trying to too alarmist, remember that we in Canada quite often inherit US policy.


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Sounds like Quebec.

Fa-Q, W

Turkey fines 20 people for using Q and W, letters not in the Turkish alphabet. It's the kind of place that just makes the sun shine, that Turkey.


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Edited by author 10-20-2005 01:24 PM
Pamuk backpedals

Orhan Pamuk is in hot water for using his words. He should move to Canada; we use our words here.

Pamuk could face up to three years in prison for reportedly telling a Swiss newspaper that "30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it". But on Saturday night, he went on CNN-Turk television to say: "I did not say, we Turks killed this many Armenians. I did not use the word 'genocide'."

Genocide. Genocide. Genocide. See? Nothing happens.

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Edited by author 10-14-2005 02:18 PM
Cuba: A nice place to visit but

You think the US likes burning books? Well, they do. But Castro likes the smell of pulp burning, too. Funny thing, how ideologies are so damn scared of words on paper.

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For me it was Salem's Lot ... I still can't sleep

Okay, I'm late for banned books week, but I was sick last week -- kind of a banned-from-society thing. So here is an interesting piece on authors revealing their early experiences with books they probably shouldn't have been experiencing so early. (Much like George Saunders' experience, my moment ended poorly, and humiliatingly, when my dumb-assed family thought it would be a good idea to creep outside and knock on my window in the pitch black...)


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Edited by author 09-27-2005 11:55 AM
Kirkus reviews of censored and challenged books

The Book Standard has compiled reviews before the fact of the books America loves to hate. Books they'd hate if they could read well enough to have read them. Books they've heard might influence young minds and make them consider things like equality, normal sexual behaviour and joy. I see no cookbooks on this list. Where are all the banned cookbooks? Where are the banned exercise books? Where are the banned pop psychology books?

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200,000 petitions

Challenging the Patriot Act, one signature at a time.


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Edited by author 09-23-2005 11:12 AM
Taslima Nasreen wins court case

The Calcutta High Court has lifted a ban on Nasreen's novel Shame.

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Good morning!

I think I'll make the start of the work week "good news day". So here we go: 2004's 20% rise in the number of books targeted for removal from library shelves is either an indicator of moral decay or an emboldened censorship movement from America's right, depending on how you look at it. Shit. I fucked that one up totally.


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Turkey charges Pamuk with "public denigrating of Turkish identity"

Frightening. And they think of themselves as part of the EU. If you could get charged with this sort of thing here, I would so be rotting in jail right now.


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Patriot Act flexes muscles

By demanding library records for an "intelligence" investigation. A first, and a disturbing development. Librarians, go here to get some "legal" signs for your library. And watch what you say. Big Brother is on the case. (From Bookslut)


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Explained!

The censorship debate made pertinent to everyday life. Increasingly, this is the kind of pressure I live under. Perhaps, as a long time fan of the strip, I am unconsciously raising my son to be Calvin-like.


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Edited by author 07-28-2005 09:49 AM
Bully

Too bad they didn't have a community builders program in place when Bush went to school. It appears that Washington is trying to suppress a book about Osama bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora. I've read various accounts of what happened, the most hilarious and therefore plausible is the one in which US 'intelligence' is tracking bin Laden on a cell phone, even though he has handed it to a right hand man and walked out of Tora Bora. Here's the Guardian's 2002 account, though this one is good too. Refugee Afghan women and children have documented the Tora Bora escapade in hundreds of garish/beautiful war rugs, an article about which I wrote and you can read here.

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Faulkner censored

In perhaps related news: the Faulkner write-alike contest Pete noted over the weekend, was won by a parody of the Bush junta. Now the in-flight magazine that agreed to print it won't. It's a lovely morning, isn't it?


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Edited by author 06-24-2005 10:05 AM
I come before you to stand behind you

Where do you stand on civil liberty? Is it a joke to even think one has privacy?

New polls show that a clear majority supports the Patriot Act. Meanwhile, the number of Americans staying up nights worrying about their vulnerable library records does not appear to be spiraling out of control. The public is willing to sacrifice some privacy to beat terrorism. If you disagree and expect to be taken seriously as a privacy champion, go after the IRS. To prove you are on the level, attack the hard targets, not the easy ones. And let the FBI get back to business.

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I think book banning is working quite well. Hardly any teens are having sex anymore, right?

Edited by author 06-02-2005 03:56 PM
I think judging from the number of censorships in local schools that I've been reading about, that this is probably pretty reliable. It's happening most definitely and most unfortunately. It is a pity that the word 'Christian' has taken on less than flattering connotations, though, I wouldn't have put it quite so, uhm, elegantly. To me, this article, and its story are synonymous with the sort of zealotry happening in almost every religion around the world these days. So, it isn't Christianity, per se, that freaks me out but the way that religion in general is being held up as the moral right. Whatever happened to the rational mind? I also find it worrisome that we as a society seem to condone violence while having a simultaneous fear of our bodies. Movies are rated R not for explicit violence generally but for explicit sexuality. I find this very disturbing. K

Edited by author 06-02-2005 01:00 PM
Did you check out the name of the website and its slogan?

Agape Press? Reliable news from a Christian source?

Reliable? Give me a break?

Why is it that more and more, as these stories come up in the USA, does the word "Christian" become increasingly synonymous with "Uptight, ignorant douchebag"?

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper

Edited by author 06-02-2005 10:32 AM
Another control freak

A Christian mom in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has succeeded in getting the city's school board to remove three books endorsing offensive sexual practices and pornography from the district's elementary and middle school libraries.

Christian mom? What does that make me, a heathen mom? I was expecting the books in question to be really steamy but it turns out two of them are about the best sex ed books around for children. Fayetteville can ban them but I highly recommend It's Perfectly Normal and It's so Amazing. They might not be for Christian moms, though, just NORMAL ones.

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Love you forever

I would like to think having your face splashed across a page in the NYT might give you pause for reflection and shame, but it's likely this lady is rather pleased to be thought of as the book banning mum. What a sad state of affairs when parents cling to restrictive power over their children's intellectual lives right at the point when a little freedom to experiment might make them a better person and give them the tools to make decisions for themselves later on (rather than following the crowd, ie, middle America -- see background of photo). (It reminds me of that inordinately creepy kids book that some people seem think cute: Love You Forever. That mother is a psychopath! That boy has to be Norman Bates. Ew ew ew ew ew.)


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Turkey looks to join European Union...

But was hoping to make a few last shitfaced fascist moves first. A 17-year-o;d boy is detained for questioning after reading Nazim Hikmet, a poet whose work was famously banned in Turkey way back when. Way to join the world, Turkey.


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My work here is done...

They are making fun of themselves now. I am obsolete. And happily so. On to sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. The Patriot Act as farce:

Let's face it, the library records are just not that interesting. I spend half my days finding audio books of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and digging through 50 copies of Michael Crichton's new "environmental thriller" for one decent book. The only reason to look at what the average American is reading (if they are reading at all) is to make fun of them. At the time of this writing, there is one "literary" title in the top 10 of the New York Times Fiction List, and two of the top five books have two authors credited. I'm sorry, but transcendent prose is not made by two guys rapping about "zinger" plotlines over Fabulous Fruit-Filled Pancakes (only $5.99!) at Denny's in Sarasota. In light of the country's reading habits, I'm not overly concerned about White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales peeking in.

Um... okay. Let's take it as a humour piece, no? (From Moby)


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P.B.S.?

G

Hmm. I'm B.S as well. A poor version.

Edited by author 05-18-2005 02:36 PM
What are you talking aobut George? Belinda Stonach (also affectionately known as B.S.) is the Mother Theresa of the Gomery Inquiry and therefore above reproach.

K

I blame it all on Belinda Stronach.

G

I heard a NW editor on As it Happens last night, and the interviewer said something like -- "so you retracted it because you can't prove the government's strong (though oddly late in coming) denial is somehow false, NOT because you no longer believe this happened?"

He responded, "Those are your words, not mine."

Life in America. Increasingly like life in Czechoslovakia circa 1969.

Edited by author 05-17-2005 10:34 AM
This reeks

Newsweek retracts its story about the Koran being desecrated at Guantanamo Bay. It's a good thing we in the West don't have to worry about things like censorship and state controlled media. Ahh, democracy. Ahh, freedom.

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The American government: keeping on truckin

The emboldened right in America is scary, sure, but what's more scary to me is the numbed left. The shock and awe of the last five years has left them catatonic, it seems, so things like this seem insignificant by comparison and pass without the howling shitstorm of controversy that should be stirred up.

What if Congress resurrected one of the most ill-conceived laws of the McCarthy era and nobody noticed? In 1952, the House and Senate passed the McCarran-Walter Act, which created an ideological litmus test for entry to the United States by barring foreigners with disfavored ideas or affiliations. The law denied admission to communists and anarchists, among others. For four decades, it was invoked to keep out hundreds of people, including writers (Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez), scholars (Belgian economist Ernst Mandel), politicians (Ireland's Gerry Adams, Nicaragua's Tomas Borge), and even a former NATO general (Italy's Nino Pasti). Congress repealed the McCarran-Walter Act in 1990 with great fanfare about eliminating thought-control at the border.

But an attachment to a bill that supplements funds for Iraq, passed by Congress and now on the president's desk, would allow the United States once again to keep out and to deport foreign nationals not for their conduct, but for their politics—their ideas, their speech, and the groups with which they associate.


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Steve Jobs: iKnob

Apple, as part of their new campaign to compete with Microsoft, continue to be major dickheads. I wish someone would ban my book. It's trash, I tell you! Think of the children! The only honourable thing to do here is to ban my book and make me a millionaire.


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Here's how the banning of ideas works

School boards that buy text books in large blocks control the content of those books, as evidenced by the conservative school boards in Texas. This means things like abstinence-only sex ed books...

Texas is one of 21 states that use a statewide textbook adoption process, thereby wielding the power to rewrite textbooks to meet their priorities. “When you create a new edition,” says Steve Driesler, president of the American Association of Publishers’ Schools Division, “you’re talking about tens of millions of dollars of investment, and obviously the publisher wants to recoup that as soon as possible.” Driesler notes that a big state adoption enables a publisher to recoup its investment within a year. So most publishers hold off on writing new editions until that particular subject comes up on the adoption calendar of the largest state-adoption states.

California’s market size outstrips that of Texas, yet Texas has become far more powerful. Most state-adoption states are in the South, a result of banding together after the Civil War to pressure educational publishers to supply them with pro-Confederate history textbooks. Officials in these states treat Texas as the lead steer, often adopting and purchasing the same textbooks that have been adopted and purchased in Texas. Also, California adopts locally at the high school level, leaving Texas as the only big player in that market.

Guess what's next? Evolution disappears from science texts. (From BoingBoing)



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Censorship has made the career of many a mediocre artist. You can fight with it, but just hope it doesn’t go away…you may need it one day. Besides, when just about everybody sees himself or herself as an artist in one capacity or another, I think art should not only be censored but discontinued indefinitely for its own preservation. Where artists are concerned, a serious cull of the herd is long overdue. This may go along way in resolving the censorship issue also. There is a censorship issue, right?

Edited by author 03-07-2005 09:54 AM
"If we know what artists are going to do, they can achieve little or nothing."

That entire article reminds of a great Gravity's Rainbow line --

"Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected to one another, the chances for freedom are over for good."

"If we know what artists are going to do, they can achieve little or nothing."

Is art being killed because the internet is faster?

The only way to achieve "decency" without "censorship" is if artists make their own choices. Tell them what to do -- or, worse yet, tell them what they are going to do before they do it -- and you have censorship, pure and simple. It may well be desirable censorship from some people's point of view, but politicians such as Stevens should at least call it by its proper name.

Free, empowered artists make their own agendas. And in so doing, they don't necessarily undermine the cultural fabric of society.



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I am so getting ready to hit Canada Customs with a saucy middle-finger emoticon

More on Little Sister's losing battle.

Little Sisters' current challenge is actually the second time the bookstore has targeted Customs. The first case concluded in 2000, when the Supreme Court flayed Customs for following arbitrary and inconsistent seizure policies. However, instead of striking down the agency's power to seize and censor, the court ordered Customs to clean up its act.

Mr. Arvay said that since then, Customs has done "almost nothing" to address the shortcomings cited by the Supreme Court, and more than 5,000 titles of "expressive material" are seized each year.



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Don't you guys get it?

You pick on my Little Sister, you pick on me.

In a decision released Friday, Justice Allan Thackray of the B.C. Court of Appeal reversed a July 2004 ruling that would have given Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium an unspecified sum to wage its book battle against the government agency. Little Sisters argued it couldn't afford another court fight with Customs, which has seized several books at the United States border since 1985.

I regularly get (non-pornographic) books sent to me from the US, and I can attest to the overzealousness of customs. Book packages from anywhere other than Amazon arrive at my house opened (only sometimes resealed) and quite often leafed through, bent, or otherwise molested. Note to bored customs dudes: once you've seen there are no drugs or bomb parts in it, WTF? Get your own books. (Aren't you reading Dean Koontz anyway?)

On the other hand, crossing the border quite consistently, as I have been the last five years, I know Canada customs officers to be a few latex gloves short of invasive, at least compared to their American counterparts.

But, regardless, Deva is right: these frontline workers should have no authority to make snap judgments on reading materials at the border -- not without more definite guidelines and some fucking sensitivity training (preferably involving ropes and meatmen.)



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So the Kansas City Classics (yikes) folks approve of "The Three Musketeers". Yeah, I agree; it's a lot of fun. The protagonist has an affair with a married woman, then seduces another woman, a maid, to get access to the bed of yet another woman. His mentors include a depressed drunk, a vain dolt and duplicitous seminarian.
All for one and one for all.

"...more books that contain an excessive use of profanity including many variations of the f-word..."
Oh! Oh! I know! Let's substitute all naughty words with numbers, like George Carlin suggested back in the '70s!

Ass.fucking.monkeys.

Oh, darling -- I love this:

check out their page of bad word lists from books on the curriculum:

http://www.classkc.org/badwords.php

There's a couple of found poems in there:

Slaughterhouse Five

Vonnegut --
motherfucker, fucked, fucking,
fuck, fucking, God-damned, Jesus,
Jesus Christ, cocksucker, shit,
piss, balls, pecker, whore,
bastard,
son of a bitch, hard-on,
hell,
damn


Catcher in the Rye

Salinger --
hell 249 times, goddam 186,
damn 113, faggy 1, ass
26, butt 2, bull 6, bitch 2,
bastard 60, Chrissake 25, God
(in vain)
32, Sonovabitch
15, Jesus Christ
(in vain) 6,
whore 5, fuck 6

It's like stumbling onto a meeting conducted in white hoods

In the words of Bookslut Michael Schaub: "Meet the enemy".



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Arkansas: next to go

Arkansas defeats anti-gay book bill. Well, technically. It was more of a tie than a defeat. How creepy is that? (From Moby)



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Kansas thinks all we are is dust in the wind

More evolution warning stickers.

Atty. Gen. Phill Kline said he favored putting stickers on textbooks similar to what was done in Georgia, and he suggested the idea to conservative members of the State Board of Education. Conservatives now have a 6-4 majority on the board.

Hey, at least it's not Texas. In fact, I haven't ragged on Texas in a bit. Are you guys laying low or improving?



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