[Peace-discuss] George Carlin

[tvchick at insightbb.com]

There is also the fact that every time a station is reported to the FCC for breaking a rule there are usually fines involved. Some larger market areas that employ DJ's like Howard Stern have it within their budget to pay these fines whenever they are issues. In a rather twisted fashion the obscenity statutes also function as a money maker for the FCC. 

You will not see the same standards being applied to print media. So what the News-Gazette might get away with in terms of their news and advertising practices could get WCIA in hot water. 

Regarding the US Supreme Court many of their decisions during the period of the 1950's thru 1970's actually loosened some of the strictures that had been placed on the First Admendment. Miller v. California was a case where a man got arrested for wearing a jacket that said "F**k the Draft" and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor.  This was also a time period when Thurgood Marshall, who initially became famous as the lawyer that argued Brown v The Board of Education, had by that time been appointed to the Supreme Court (1967) - and he was a strong advocate of free speech, even when the speech itself was unpopular. 

Peace, Marti

----- Original Message -----
From: n.dahlheim at mchsi.com
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 13:20
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] George Carlin
To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net

> About George Carlin,
> 
>       I really think the fact that his 
> FCC obscenity case was not decided in the Supreme Court in his 
> favor 
> is a sign that Americans are still hung up with their petty 
> standards of decency.  Carlin uses dirty 
> language for a very specific purpose: to demonstrate the 
> absurdity of human behavior and avoid the 
> pitfalls of euphemism.  Should we really be concerned about 
> a few bad words, or should we really be 
> concerned about a Leviathan chewing up everything in its 
> path.  A few bad words may even be in order 
> to describe the path we are taking.
> 
>      As for not voting.  I don't vote 
> either.  I refuse to participate in a farce meant to 
> distract us and 
> placate us.   Voting is a waste of time because no 
> matter who wins national elections, those people will 
> necessarily always be bought off or eliminated if they don't 
> follow the corporate template.  I cannot 
> believe people expected Democrats to make any real difference in 
> this war.  If the large corporations in 
> the form of the oil and defense contractors were for this war, 
> Congress will not stand in the way.  The 
> wealth is sooooo concentrated that we are rapidly being 
> transformed into serfs for their global fascist/
> corporate order.  We might as well have fun because it is a 
> long way down, and a little light will help 
> because this abyss will be incredibly deep.
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