To: Enterprise
It's worth looking at the type of thing that happened to the comic book industry in 1954: Congress didn't actually pass a law censoring the industry, but simply pressured the industry into censoring itself.
In a way, it's even worse, since by not actually making it a matter of law, there is no legal recourse against it.
217 posted on
06/11/2006 11:45:17 AM PDT by
Sofa King
(A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
To: Sofa King
"In a way, it's even worse, since by not actually making it a matter of law, there is no legal recourse against it."
Liberals can always be counted on to suppress the free speech of anyone who opposes them, like any strutting Nazis.
Accompanied by screaming "1st amendment rights" the moment anyone even dares to challenge their Cindy Sheehan like loony left rantings.
To: Sofa King
Great observation. It is a way of suppressing something without actually legislating against it. I wonder how many of the Congress people are still alive today to observe all the illustrated porn and violence available on the internet. You can suppress something for a while, but only for a while.
238 posted on
06/11/2006 12:12:05 PM PDT by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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