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To: tfecw
I didn't bring it up. I wasn't the one that mentioned Janet Jackson, you will notice.

And if you read my post, you will see that my concern is the same as yours, just the flip side of it.

The question that faces the elitists is, how to get us prying yokels off their back? Up to now, the answer was, we'll let them have porno "prolefeed", and they won't notice that they can't say anything politically substantive anymore. Your concern is that, now that the proles are off the reservation, they will take the tack of, "OK, we'll restrict porn now", and use that as a cover for restricting what they REALLY hate.

I'm fed up with the elitists' shell games, though, and mean to say just what I did say. Porn is a separate issue from political speech, and I will not let the free speech suppressors turn it into a smokescreen. One hundred years ago, everybody understood the difference. What is so different now? Only that nowadays, we willingly accept hypocrisy at its face value (because it plays well on the MSM).

But not here. They ain't gettin' away with it anymore.

13 posted on 09/02/2005 7:54:32 AM PDT by thulldud (It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
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To: thulldud
"I'm fed up with the elitists' shell games, though, and mean to say just what I did say. Porn is a separate issue from political speech, and I will not let the free speech suppressors turn it into a smokescreen. One hundred years ago, everybody understood the difference. What is so different now? Only that nowadays, we willingly accept hypocrisy at its face value (because it plays well on the MSM). "

I see where you are coming from now and I can't disagree with anything you've said here today. Besides I'm a sucker for Orwell references ;)
14 posted on 09/02/2005 8:03:52 AM PDT by tfecw (It's for the children)
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