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New TV Outrage - A New Low For TV:

YOUR IMMEDIATE HELP NEEDED TO DRIVE THIS GROSSLY INDECENT GARBAGE OFF TV AND OUT OF OUR HOMES...

First, we apologize to you in advance for asking you to read the filth below.  WARNING: it's EXTREMELY offensive. 

DON'T LET ANY CHILDREN READ THIS E-MAIL!

But millions of children were already exposed to it on TV, and you need to know how totally sick some TV shows marketed to children have become.

Here's what millions of impressionable youngsters across America who tuned in to the new Fox-TV show, "Keen Eddie," were subjected to last Tuesday evening (June 10) --

The plot involved a case about black market traffic in horse semen.  Detective Eddie hired a prostitute (whose ad in the newspaper read, "Forty Year Old Filthy Slut. Will Do Anything") to have sex with a horse!!!

FILE YOUR FORMAL INDECENCY COMPLAINT AGAINST THE JUNE 10, 2003 EPISODE OF FOX-TV's "KEEN EDDIE" WITH THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC) NOW!

This is what you letter to the FCC will look like:

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To: Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), Washington, D.C.

Michael K. Powell, Chairman
Kathleen Q. Abernathy
Jonathan S. Adelstein
Michael J. Copps
Kevin J. Martin

RE:   OFFICIAL FCC TELEVISION INDECENCY COMPLAINT:

This is a formal COMPLAINT of indecency on broadcast television. My complaint concerns the PROGRAM ON:
NETWORK:  FOX-TV
PROGRAM TITLE:  "Keen Eddie"
BROADCAST DATE: June 10, 2003
BROADCAST TIME:  9:00 PM Eastern & Pacific Time, 8:00 PM Central & Mountain Time

Documentation of the indecent material on which my COMPLAINT is based is provided below.  A video tape of this entire episode of "Keen Eddie" is available from the Parents Television Council. PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED OF THE PROGRESS AND RESULTS OF YOUR INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MATTER.

COMPLAINANT believes that this material is in context and fully representative of the show's overall tone and quality.

COMPLAINANT also declares that such material is:

• Clearly indecent according to the standards of my community;
• Especially offensive because it was broadcast at an hour when millions of children were watching; and
• Because the popularity of this program with young viewers is well-documented.

The FCC should exercise its responsibility to enforce the existing law against indecency on broadcast TV between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. (Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1464) by levying severe sanctions against the broadcasters of this program.

PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED OF THE PROGRESS AND RESULTS OF YOUR INVESTIGATION INTO THIS MATTER. SYNOPSIS, June 10, 2003 EPISODE OF "Keen Eddie"

The plot involved a case about black market traffic in horse semen.  Detective Eddie hired a prostitute (whose ad in the newspaper read, "Forty Year Old Filthy Slut. Will Do Anything") to have sex with a horse.

When the prostitute showed up at the stable, Keen Eddie's thugs asked her to have sexual intercourse with a horse because they needed its semen. 

Actual dialogue:

Prostitute: --No, that's not natural.
Thug: --------Extraction for insemination. If you look at the picture on  page 45 you'll see how natural it is...
Prostitute: --Forget it!
Another Thug: --You're a 40-year old filthy slut, you'll do anything...
Prostitute: --With a human...

The prostitute finally agrees to go through with it.  She goes to the stable and attempts to arouse the horse, but the horse drops dead. 

She explains, "I never laid a finger on it.  I lifted up my blouse, that's all… he needs to get aroused.  I happen to know a little something on this subject."

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CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR PROTEST TO ALL 5 FCC COMMISSIONERS

A copy of this COMPLAINT will be sent in your name to Gateway, Subway, Pier 1 and Nissan as a sponsor of this program, with the following message:

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I am outraged at the frightening increase in violence, sex, filth, smutty humor and coarse language on prime-time television. TV shows have been poisoned by a flood of offensive material that is helping destroy family values and seriously harming America's children and grandchildren… and SPONSORS LIKE YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT WITH YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLARS!

In particular, TV was poisoned by the June 10, 2003 episode of "Keen Eddie" aired on Fox-TV and sponsored by {name of sponsor}.

As a consumer, I am taking part in this grassroots campaign organized by the Parents Television Council (PTC) to urge you and all commercial TV Sponsors to STOP USING YOUR ADVERTISING DOLLARS TO UNDERWRITE THE FILTH AND VIOLENCE THAT IS POISONING THE MINDS OF MILLIONS OF IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNGSTERS.

I hope and expect to hear from the PTC that {name of sponsor} has adopted a new and more responsible advertising policy that will preclude sponsorship of any program containing material as indecent as that featured in the June 10 broadcast of "Keen Eddie."

Sincerely,

Your Name

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Call or Send a snail mail to the commissioners: Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20554
Phone: 888-CALL-FCC (225-5322)
TTY: 888-TELL-FCC (835-5322)
Fax: 202-418-0232

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1. Go to Complaint To FCC and sign the formal indecency complaint to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) against this "Keen Eddie" broadcast.  The FCC is supposed to enforce the federal law against broadcast TV indecency during children's viewing hours.  Please help us flood the FCC with complaints about this "Keen Eddie" atrocity.

2. When you sign the FCC complaint, the PTC will also generate on your behalf a WARNING TO SPONSORS addressed to four of the national advertisers whose commercial dollars paid to air this show on Fox-TV.  Your warning alerts Gateway Computers, Subway Restaurants, Pier 1 and Nissan Motor Company that you are shocked at their irresponsibility in paying for such filth-filled content.

3. ALSO VERY IMPORTANT -- FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY NOW SO THEY CAN JOIN THE FIGHT.

Fox-TV's descent into this moral sewer was paid for by the sponsors who bought commercial time on this show.  

They include companies like Gateway, Subway, Pier 1 and Nissan -- all nationally-known brands that want to be  perceived as friends of the American family.

How can they allow their commercial dollars to pay for polluting our homes with graphic filth like this?  Whether these companies intended it or not, this kind of content directly violates the moral standards of decent families, especially those with young children. 

When TV Sponsors advertise on shows containing content like this -- whether it's bestiality and foul language on "Keen Eddie," or the  barrage of ultra-violence and references to oral sex, threesomes, masturbation and homosexuality documented by the PTC on other prime-time broadcast network shows -- we must hold the sponsors accountable for attempting to destroy our children's and grandchildren's moral values and character.

Moreover, your official indecency complaint to the FCC will support our campaign to demand that the FCC investigate, fine, and possibly pull station licenses of the Fox-TV affiliates who aired this "Keen Eddie" show.

And, hopefully, many of your friends and family will also forward this e-mail, so the FCC INDECENCY COMPLAINT and WARNING TO SPONSORS will be multiplied many, many times over!

We need you and a lot of other decent folks to take immediate action. Please don't delay.

With urgent thanks,

Parents Television Council

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P.S. Go now to FCC INDECENCY COMPLAINT to file your FCC INDECENCY COMPLAINT and to generate your WARNING TO SPONSORS.  This is how, TOGETHER WITH YOU, the Parents Television Council will stop the flood of filth, depravity, foul language and sick, ultra-violence on TV: overwhelming grass roots pressure brought to bear on one network, one show, and one sponsor at a time.

Also-PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY NOW SO THEY CAN JOIN THE FIGHT. 

Thank you.

Parent Television Council

[webber]

"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

Serving means obeying Him. God doesn't sit idly by and let immorality flourish. Noah's flood is proof of that. So don't quote scripture to me and then act like a hippocrit. Would you like the this nation to be judged by God because it has become so immoral that God will have to step in and judge her like Sodom and Gomorrah, or are you one of those who is so up to the truth about the Bible that you definitely know for certainty that this was just a fairy tale, and was used only as a illustration the story of Sodom and Gomorrah never Really happen?

[webber]

What is impossible with man is NOT impossible with GOD.

"If my people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray, turn from their wicked ways, and seek My Face, THEN will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sins and HEAL THEIR LAND!! --God Almighty.

[webber]

I see, so when YOU see evil, you just put your hands over your eyes, and everything will be alright!

GOOD LUCK! Don't trip over a cliff.

[webber]

No sir. You're the loser. You just don't know it yet. You have just allowed the FLOOD of smut to flow unchecked, without putting up barriers, and now we will all pay the consequences for it. God help us all!
It seems even conservatives have embraced evil and think nothing of it.
Satan has put the bait in the water and America is swallowing it hook, line and sinker. And of Course God will allow it because His children are tolerant of other people's behaviors even if it's an abomination to Him. He will not judge us, just like He didn't any nation in the past throughout History!

[webber]

Guess what time MOST of these filthy programs are aired? Between 5-10 PM.
So they break FCC regulations, but the FCC will not enforce their owns laws. THAT'S THE WHOLE ISSUE. GETTING THE FCC TO ENFORCE THEIR OWN LAWS!!!

[webber]

Why don't you go back and read the artcle again. The petition is there BECAUSE THE FCC IS NOT, NOT, NOT ENFORCING THEIR OWN STANDARDS OR LAWS.

[Physicist]

I suggest you read about the Roman Empire and how it came to an end. It wasn't because of foreign Invaders, it was because of immoral debauchery which you wish to flourish in our nation.

According to Gibbon (among others), the fall of the Roman Empire stemmed from the rise of Christianity. (To be fair, though, Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" took 13 centuries.)

But at any rate, Roman debauchery was in full swing in at the beginning of the first century. Rome didn't reach its peak until the late 2nd century, and didn't fall until the late 5th century (after a century and a half of state Christianity).

[FreeLibertarian]

Now really you all give me a headache

You're getting a headache because you're being forced to face how ridiculus your puritanical ideas really are.

[webber]

No it was NOT Christianity of the Apostles. It was Roman Catholicism which was corrupted by the Caesars who appointed Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and such who would obey them. The Roman Empire was already on the decline, Socially, Governmentally, and religiously.

[Physicist]

No it was NOT Christianity of the Apostles.

And the Christianity of Christ was Judaism. Go figure.

It was Roman Catholicism which was corrupted by the Caesars who appointed Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and such who would obey them.

Do you accept or reject the Nicene Creed?

The Roman Empire was already on the decline, Socially, Governmentally, and religiously.

"Already" as of when? There is no Roman debauchery you can describe that was not in full swing at the time of Christ, and yet Rome didn't reach its peak--artistic, literary, architectural, economic, or military--until centuries later.

There isn't the slightest shred of evidence that pornography or sexual license had anything whatsoever to do with the fall of Rome. That's pure revival-tent revisionism. At the end of the Western empire, puritanism was in full swing.

[ffusco]

Fine, If they violated their own standards- call them on it. I for one never discouraged anyone from this kind of activism- but it's not a battle that I choose to join. Best of luck.

[ffusco]

To say that Christianity caused the fall of the Roman Empire sound anti-Christian, but it means simply that Christianity wasn't compatible with a Fascist government- which Rome had more or less become at THAT time.

Christianity made people "less patriotic" in the sense that they stopped participating in all manner of state rituals and "Pledges of Allegiance" which were part of the social contract Roman's had participated in for centuries. Also as the rest of the empire became n more urban and prosperous Rome's influence waned. But other great factors were a devalued currency, massive illegal immigration, high taxation, a huge welfare class, a complacent middle class, a foreign standing army and the tyranny of a corrupt government.

[tpaine]

Tell it to CJ.

He thinks that opinions on Constitutional rights and law are worth exactly what anyone else is willing to pay for them: ziltch.

[Dave S]

It seems that's all you know about the Bible is the sluts, prostitutes, and sex. Guess I know where your mind is.

You may call it projection on my part but I have a pretty good understanding of busybodies like you think.

[kcar]

I am pretty sure that another psychiatrist could report that some puritantical would-be regulators have been known to spend as much as 10 hours a day conspiring to regulate the behavior and tastes of their neighbors. Being a busy body is like an addiction, he might add, a disease that eats away at the afflicted with constant fretting that some people, somewhere are doing things at this very moment that are making them happier than they are.
While it may start out as a moderate and sensible concern about the direction of societal mores, all too frequently it has been known to mushroom into a disease that overtakes the perspective of the afflicted. Fully flowered the addict is known to extravagantly compare the risque mores of the Modern Age to the Fall of the Roman Empire, Slavery, Holocaust, even to Adolf Hitler. They become paranoid that their children may become tarts or homos' after being exposed to only five minutes of a video that favorably portrays such errant behavior. And yes, despite sharing a general paranoia of the Imperial Federal government with other conservatives, frequently these Paleos shuck that aside in the sudden urgent effort to restore the glory of the early days of the Roman Empire and the pre-Civil War Confederacy.

[ffusco]

Your last post got me thinking of that David Bowie song China Girl.

"I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue.
I'll give you a man and a voice to rule the world...."

Just romantic crap or something sinister?

[iconoclast]

There is also a little button on the front of the TV - and the remote control - labled, "Off".

Works for me everytime.

Yep, that would be just hunky-dorie if your little world = cultural reality.

[headsonpikes]

The government is your God; it is not mine.

I reiterate that you have a passion for totalitarianism that you dare not look at. This intellectual dishonesty will bite you in the *ss, yet, despite your attempts to throw dirt in the eyes of others.

Hubris...you stink of it.

[honeygrl]

No, you teach them what is acceptable and what is not and how to deal with it when they aren't home. It's the same concept as me not totally babyproofing my home. I have a toddler and a crawler and I do not babyproof it comepletely so I can teach them how stay out of things they shouldn't be into and when they are at other people's homes I don't have to worry that they are breaking things in the next room. Sure, it's a little more difficult and takes a little more parenting time. It's worth it in the end though when they understand what "no touch" means at someone else's home.

[honeygrl]

"When your kids go online, I suppose you are there to make sure they don't visit any innocent looking sites that turn out to be porn sites or other unapproving sites, "

I for one wouldn't allow my kids online without supervision. That's like taking your child downtown, letting them out of the car, and saying "i'll be back later.." But it doesn't matter how much you censor TV or internet, kids are still going to have bad influences in their life to deal with. It's up to you to teach them what to do when they come face to face with things like that.