Posted on 02/27/2005 7:31:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The Register's opinion pages constantly seek to find total freedom when there's no such thing ["An indecent power grab," discussing legislation to increase FCC fines for broadcasting "indecent" material, Editorials, Feb. 20].
Total freedom would hurtle us over the cliff of anarchy on which the Register keeps teetering in the misguided belief in the viewpoint that "anything goes."
Sexual perversion on the screen or foul language screamed in public are not speech. They're acts that bottom-feeders of our society have insinuated into our Constitution. When we say what we think, thougn prohibited from using foul language or indeceny, we do not lose our free speech.
For decades, I've witnessed activist jurists murdering the rule of law. Reinterpreting the Constitution has become a crusade to change our law for their own selfish needs. The First Amendment has been trampled on. In my memory, courts prosecuted foul language and indecency, punishing by fine or jail term.
The Constitution is meant to enhance, not hinder, civility and morality. That was important to what America became. It separated us from other countries, and that difference became the essence of what America once was.
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There is an old adage, sometimes attributed to Toqueville: "America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." Are we any longer good?
I'm not saying that the Register intends to contribute to the decline of the moral base of this nation, but by promoting a belief in libertarianism's "anything goes" ethos, that's exactly what's happening.
It's long overdue for good men to take a stand and refuse to let the bottom-feeders of our society corrupt our youth and destroy America.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Amen!
Thank Norm. Good article...
Spike TV fined $50,000 for 'indecency'
Johnathan Dough
Capitol Bureau Chief
In a surprise move, today, the Federal Communications Commission fined Viacom’s “Spike TV” 250,000 for indecency. FCC Chair Charles E Schoemer announced the fine earlier today, after complaints about the 1980’s shows “Miami Vice” and “The A-Team.”
“Guns kill people and cause violence,” stated FCC Chair Schoemer. “We need to sense a strong and swift message to the world that guns are no longer welcome on television. Guns will no longer influence our kids. This proliferation of violence, decadence, and indecency will end and end now.”
Schoemer, a Democrat, was named FCC Chair by President Jennifer Grandholme, who was elected in 2010. Grandholme decried the rise of gun violence on TV as harmful to children, and said that there would be changed if she was elected president. She applauded the decision made by the FCC.
“We cracked down on indecent sex on television, why not the proliferation of guns on television? Guns kill people,” stated President Grandholme. “The indecency laws are broad enough for the FCC to make the changes without any new laws from congress, so we decided to take this step. We will continue our crackdown on indecency in the future.”
Spike TV was not available for comment.
You're welcome. He lays it out pretty well.
James Homer Russell, a Rancho Santa Margarita resident, was pastor at Covenant Church of the Redeemer in Fullerton for 30 years.
Just so they don't shut down XMC :-]
Try reading the Santa Cruz Sentenial, just as bad!
Ping to self.
Yes he does. Thanks for the additional tidbit.
There is no such thing as an "old adage". You would think reporters would know that.
Adages are by definition old.
Good point.. Thanks.
The author was a pastor, not a reporter, for 30 years.
He probably used terms for dramatic effect, proper or not .. much like politicos oft do.
Yes! BTTT!
I'm sure our glorious leader Arnold will help attack the bottom-feeders in our societ who have peddeled smut to the youth! Wait a minute, did Aronld do some porn when he was young? Never mind.
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