Posted on 06/20/2003 6:04:02 PM PDT by webber
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:
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:
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."
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:
Sincerely,
Your Name
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
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
Also-PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY NOW SO THEY CAN JOIN THE FIGHT.
Thank you.
Parent Television Council
SkyAngel is a Christian-based satellite service that uses DishNetwork as a platform.
21 television channels (Angel One, Angel Two, KTV, TVU, Guardian Television Network, Faith TV, SuperChannel TBN, Three Angels Broadcasting, Safe TV, Cornerstone Television, Daystar, Christian Television Network-Detroit, Golden Eagle Broadcasting, Liberty Channel, Familyland, The Inspiration Network, World Harvest Television, FE TV, Gospel Music Television, Praise TV & The Worship Channel) and 16 radio channels (His Kids Radio, K-LOVE Radio, Pulse Radio, Radio U Network, WAY-FM, American Family Radio, Bible Broadcasting Network, Calvary Satellite Network, Living Way Radio, Moody Broadcasting Network, Solid Gospel Music Radio, Sacred Favorites, Voice of Jerusalem, Z-73 Radio, Radio Nuevo Vida, Totally Gospel Urban Radio) are broadcasting family friendly, Christian-based television 24 hours a day.
Cost is $12/month. Install is as little as $149. If you've already got Dish Network, then there is no additional installation cost. Just call 'em up and add the service. Otherwise, you have to get the dish & receiver. **There is no requirement to purchase DISH Network programming to receive SkyAngel.**
It's definitely a solid alternative for those who are looking for something different than what you find on the other networks.
The topic of the thread. What was I thinking.
Answer my point: why didn' those cultures produce the political culture we have today which has given us Constitutional government and human rights ?
Mainly because their governments were too strong and intellectually repressive. But also in large measure, because they didn't have the Classical (read: pagan) heritage of Greece and Rome to draw upon. Think about it: the word "renaissance" means "rebirth". Rebirth of what? And what was the "death" that necessitated that rebirth?
Had the classical traditions of Greece and Rome not been rediscovered, there would have been no Renaissance, no Age of Reason, no Constitution. We'd still be mired in the Dark Ages.
Was Christianity ultimately useful in bringing about the specific society we enjoy (cherished precisely because it is not repressive)? Yes. But that Christianity is not sufficient to bring it about is proven by experiment (the Dark Ages). And that Christianity is not necessary for it is also proven by experiment (Athens).
That's the spirit !
You don't have to worry: you're Canadian.
A phrase that fell often from the lips of those who burned the devout at the stake in Merry Catholic England, and executed those who fought for Parliamentary Sovereignty.
"Molochian tyrants" I retort!
;^)
Take some control of your own life, don't give up control of yours to gain some control over mine!
Sure there were. Although they held on to fragments of Classical learning, they weren't widely shared with the populace. But you're right in the sense that the traditions of Greece and Rome were not ever entirely lost there.
The knowledge of the Greeks continued to be known by the Arabs and was brought by them to Spain where it was preserved and translated into Arabic.
Yes, and they reaped a substantial benefit. Recommended reading.
The question then is, given that this knowledge was so key to the development of political thought, why did it not produce a political renaissance leading to our ideas about freedom and human rights among the Arabs ?
That's a great question, although I will point out that the artistic, scientific, economic, and cultural achievements of Islam beat the socks off Christendom throughout the period, and produced a far more tolerant and free society in comparison, all the way up to the Renaissance.
A better question, however, is how the Byzantine Empire itself, with its access to Classical traditions and its Christian religion, failed to produce a free society. I don't know whether life in Byzantium was any better than in Europe at the time. Probably the government was too repressive. At any rate, Christianity didn't seem to get too far in our direction.
Anyway, we're getting pretty far off-topic, unless someone wants to steer this in the direction of, "you have to accept Christian intolerance, because without Christianity there'd be no tolerance," or suchlike.
I'm not sure what controls exactly the FCC has on TV right now. I've seen lots of stuff on the TV that's over the top--Howard Stern, MTV, Girls Gone Wild commercials, etc. It seems like things are pretty lax right now. Sounds like some on this board wouldn't mind if things were even more lax. If there are rules that are not being enforced then they should be enforced. If there are not rules regulating this, then consumers should start contacting the stations and advertisers. I really am undecided what to do about it after that if the stations refuse to change their ways.
Like I said before, I don't want to live in a country like Holland or France where just about anything goes. Right now it's okay for a man in Texas to stick his a$$ in the air while on a bike because he's wearing a thong. Technically his anus and genitals are covered so society has to be subjected to his hairy butt riding around town. The change the channel method doesn't work in that scenario. He's obscene and should be ticketed. If he continues the behavior he should be taken to jail. . Anyway, I would blow up our TV if I could get away with it. Maybe I should start a campaign for all good Americans to blow up their TVs or we could do like the liberals do with guns and have buy back programs. Or the schools could endoctrinate the youngsters that cigarettes aren't evil and to be feared but TV stations and the evil they produce are--fat chance.
So, I think I understand some of your trepidations about having too much government control because I have some of those same concerns too, but I don't think that there shouldn't be any regulations, increases, or changes ever made.
IMO, it all comes down to the normalizing of depravity and obscenity in our society. That's why I brought up the NAMBLA scenario. It's outrageous that these people should be allowed to have a website but the ACLU says they should because it would be censorship otherwise. Who would of thought even 20 years ago that a group promoting the normalizing of "love" between a grown man and a young boy would been known about.
Wish there was some way to have a seance with the fathers of this country and ask for their guidance. It's definitely a different America than when they were around--some changes for the better and some for worse.
A good example of Owellian language there. Your use of "tolerance" is the PC version, not the original meaning.
There have been no free societies anywhere before the 19th century.
But then, you're Canadian and shouldn't you be battling for freedom up there ? If Canadians had spent half there rage against the Political Correctness run amok up north, they wouldn't have time to rant on this forum.
Yes, we will cast out all the libertines, and run the vices back underground where they belong ! That's what we came to these shores to do !
A six year old, no, but sixteen year olds generally have a pretty developed attention span and awareness to understand the meaning and significance of more complex themes. One of my favorite movies at sixteen was Lawrence of Arabia--definitely a long one (no pun intended) and definitely not a chick flick. Lots of men in the movie but no old man parts though.
Depends on the Horse Sexer Upper Person, doesn't it.
Howard Stern, MTV, Girls Gone Wild commericals may play on your TV set but they are transmitted over cable. They are NOT regulated by the FCC.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.