[myrabach]

Actually I was more free back there in the 50's than I am now... I had more liberty as well. And there weren't any Paris Hilton commercials on the TV, nor would any be allowed.

I just don't follow the thought that somehow my liberty and freedom is in jeabordy if I don't allow hard core porn into my living room. Why don't I have the freedom to not have the porn on my tv?

[Modernman]

Why don't I have the freedom to not have the porn on my tv?

You do. It's called the power button.

[hopespringseternal]

Why don't I have the freedom to not have the porn on my tv?

Because the libertines know that they aren't going to stop marketing porn to your kids until you send the stormtroopers for them.

That is why it is always necessary to be more tolerant and more concerned for your freedoms: To protect their license.

Porn has always been perfectly accessible for adults, but that is not enough for them. Little Johnny isn't likely to toddle down the the dirty shop in a bad neighborhood, it has to be beamed into your living room to reach him.

[Nowhere Man]

Actually I was more free back there in the 50's than I am now... I had more liberty as well. And there weren't any Paris Hilton commercials on the TV, nor would any be allowed.

I just don't follow the thought that somehow my liberty and freedom is in jeabordy if I don't allow hard core porn into my living room. Why don't I have the freedom to not have the porn on my tv?

You got a point there, I'm also a big 2nd Amendment supporter and back then if you bought a firearm at Sears, Woolworths, or Monkey Wards and took it home, box and all, no one would queation you. I think a long while back, a Freeper said he did the same thing back then at the age of 14 and no one complained or called the cops.

I was born in 1966 and what is on TV today is even a far cry from the 1970's. I might get into trouble here, but the freedom of speech was meant to be able to criticize government, it's people and it's policies, i.e., politics. If someone wanted to say President Clinton was wrong on Bosnia or President Bush was wrong on Iraq, it is their right to do so. Even if they want to yell "President Clinton is a fink!" or "President Bush is a fink!" again that is protected along with ideas on how things ought to be and what directions we should be headed then. I have trouble when the 1st Amendment is used to defend lewd conduct and content. I do realize that trade in this stuff is tough to stop but I think the best way is to basically go back to what we had in the 1950's and before where basically porn was one of those things that were covered in a brown paper bag covered and enjoyed in private. I don't think it should extend to books and literature, I mean there has been great literature that has been banned because of going overboard, I'm mainly talking about porn and things like that. I think where the PC Left and Libertarian Right do miss the mark is that we have the death of common sense in this country and we are paying for it.

[JeffAtlanta]

Actually I was more free back there in the 50's than I am now

You must not be black.

[Melas]

I'll bite, what liberties did you enjoy in the 1950's that you no longer enjoy. Please don't respond with some lame diatribe about being free from porn, that's a bad play on word, not a serious answer at all. However, if you can truly show me where you had more liberty then, than you have now, I'd love to hear it.

[steve-b]

I was more free back there in the 50's[sic] than I am now

e.g. you didn't have to share a drinking fountain with them coloreds.