[onward_xtian_soldier]

Amen. One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely. And that other show someone mentioned, the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent. I pray for that day, and others should join me.

[cajungirl]

Are you serious?

[Wormwood]

Your parody is dead-on.

[OldSmaj]

One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television.

Uh..., hey, just in case you didn't know...there is a little button on your TV...some call it the on-off button.

Use it.

In case you can't find that button, then just go to the wall and pull the plug from the socket.

All this nanny-state crap is just that...crap.

Why do you think you have the exclusive province to decide what I or anyone else watches on TV or reads in a book?

Or that you have the right to control what someone writes in a book or creates as a TV show or movie?

I agree that some of the content of the stuff being put out this day and age is beyond the bounds of decency, but I refuse to follow some taliban-like edicts from a radical religious fundamentalist with delusions of forcing everyone else into his/her chosen lifestyle.

Government intrudes into my life enough as it is.

I don't need any more intrusions.

And just to make sure that we understand one another...I suggested you use the on-off button, but if you don't wish to, then hey, I really don't care, since it's your life, your business, and what you do, in the privacy of your home, is none of my business.

Let's keep it that way.

[Puppage]

and depicting evil not being punished swiftly

Since when is evil swiftly punished??

[WorkingClassFilth]

Can’t and won’t go with you on this. While I’d agree to some form of decency laws, outright censorship that ignores all reality or creative ideas is nuts. Personally, I don’t have a TV and I make choices every week about what my family watches on the VCR-monitor combination. Discretion is the first, and best, defense against mindless trash.

If you really want to change America’s veiwing habits, you must change the culture. This can happen only if people are changed and that job starts with ourselves.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely.”

It is cable television. You don’t want the show, don’t pay for the station.

[angkor]

restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media

I guess it would be futile to explain to you that cable TV is not "broadcast media".

the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent

That's why they call it "television" and not "reality".

You're either a troll or a blithering idiot.

[StoneColdTaxHater]

Sure that’s what we need, more nanny state government! We don’t have nearly enough intrusion. I need a gov’t watchdog to tell me how to change channels, turn off the TV or just not purchase HBO. Thanks for the idea, COMRADE!

[dighton]

One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely. And that other show someone mentioned, the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent. I pray for that day, and others should join me.

Having seen many books, short stories, and plays mutilated for the screen by Hays Code requirements, I can only say no thank you.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Amen. One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely. And that other show someone mentioned, the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent. I pray for that day, and others should join me.

Please tell me you are kidding. Please. WAYR?

[Scutter]

Amen. One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely. And that other show someone mentioned, the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent. I pray for that day, and others should join me.

Good news! You have the power to do this already. It's called the remote control. Change the channel or turn off the TV if you don't like it. Or are you dead set on telling everyone else what they can and can't watch?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

This is why the Republicans became a minority party.

[lesser_satan]

Did you forget the sarc tag, or are you a Maoist?

[Spyder]

One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely.

Nobody's making you subscribe to HBO.

[Charlespg]

sniff do I smell troll ?

[GenuineChocolateFace]

Amen. One initiative we need in this country is to restore Hays Code standards to movies and extend them to cover all forms of broadcast media such as cable television. Under the Hays Code, the Sopranos would be banned for its profanity, sexual perversion and most importantly for glorifying criminality and depicting evil not being punished swiftly and surely. And that other show someone mentioned, the Shield, would be banned for showing our brave policemen as corrupt and violent. I pray for that day, and others should join me.

Yeah! Amen, brother! And while we're at it, let's toss out that stupid, outdated constitution thingy, too, because all it does is let people be free, and that kinda thing is sinful and wrong!