Posted on 12/19/2014 11:30:47 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Did you know that having First Amendment rights in the United States comes with the responsibility not to offend dictators from North Korea? Had no idea? Me either.
Last night on CNN "journalist" Sharon Waxman, who has worked at a number of media outlets including the Washington Post, argued that having First Amendment rights means we shouldn't be making fun of North Korean dictators because they might get upset. She was of course referring to the recent and massive hack on Sony pictures by North Korea as retaliation for "The Interview," a comedy about assassinating Kim Jong-Un.
"I also want to point out something else that does not seem to be part of the discussion which is, where are our responsibilities in our exercising of the First Amendment? And I mean both those of us in the media and those of us who are making movies and those of us who are writing about the community that makes movies which is to say what is the thought process behind making a movie in which we decide to depict the assassination of a living foreign leader," Waxman said on air with someone on set in the studio agreeing by saying "good point."
"I think common sense has to prevail when we express our artistic freedoms," Waxman added.
"Living foreign leader"? More like living, foreign, brutal dictator. What's the process behind this thought process? This is America, we say and do what we want. Period. The entire purpose of the First Amendment is to be able to speak out against tyranny. We don't restrict our First Amendment rights to appease a guy who puts thousands of people into starvation, labor camps. It's "common sense" to mock people like Kim Jong-Un, not to act like cowards and cave to his demands.
H/T MKH
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Tell me a lot about current NK leader
He has thin skin
His daddy didn’t do jack to the US when Team America came out
We USED to be Greece. Now we’re Outer Mongolia.
Which reminds me:
Question: “What did Socialists use for light their before they had candles?”
Answer: “Electricity”
Even Henry VIII tolerated the Punch and Judy puppet shows which mocked his regime.
Well obviously he has thin skin. He makes everyone with the same name as his change theirs. Still, the movie goes far beyond those posters and other political criticism. It was worldwide ridicule coupled with what he perceived as a real physical threat. So thin skinned or not, anyone would have hated that.
First amendment in tact, we have laws against threatening people. If you send threats to a person you are charged with a minimum of stalking. It depends on if the recipient FEELS threatened.
But it's just fine to criticize, mock and trash the beliefs of sincere Christians and political conservatives, those who believe in the traditional founding of the the United States of America, those who believe that marriage is only between and man and a women, and those who don't believe in nation destroying so called multiculturalism.
Yeah, the leftist cowards of the media are very self conscious about offending Muslims, blacks, homosexuals, "minorities" or the boy freak in North Korea that thinks he's a God. But when it comes to white Christian America, any sort of mockery is allowed and encouraged.
My God, I hate the American liberal media.
The media deserves all the pain that the North Korean boy freak can inflict upon it!
I am so fed up with idiots like this woman who persist in giving other women a bad name by saying stupid stuff like this! A lot of people already think that women on the whole are more stupid and less intelligent than men.
somebody missed school the day they splained the first amendment
That my FRiend is hilarious.
Without knowing any details, it’s difficult to have any sense at all of how serious this threat is. But if Sony believes that the threat is serious, then it seems to me that they have taken the only possible course of action. To put their customers or their employees directly into harm’s way would be a mistake.
I have this fantasy of being Sony’s CEO and staging another hack so that someone sneaks in, downloads the film, and posts it in 1,000 different places on the Internet. I could then just throw up my arms and say, what the heck, we’ve been hacked again!!! How could that have happened?
Word has it that the movie is bad. I can’t imagine that at this point it will be a commercial success. So what is the downside of just posting it like this?
He knew better to give an outlet for people to laugh at mockery than to allow simmering resentment broil.
I remember POPEYE hitting a bad guy so hard when he landed he looked just like Gandhi.
Now the movie industry quakes in their boots over a mock of the NK dick tater. Which reminds me of a joke, but not for FR.
It's always seemed obvious to me that North Korea is simply a wholly-owned subsidiary of Red China. Kim Dung's daddy, Kim Dim Wit, always took a train to China to confer and get permission before he made any major moves. Kim Dung may like to think that he is more independent, but I'm sure China would smack him down if he tried to act "outside the box".
Anything the Norks say or do is at the behest of, or with the approval of China.
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