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- From: swb@marvin.ae.utexas.edu (Steve W Bova)
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- Subject: Re: Liberals DO oppose First Amendment rights
- Message-ID: <SWB.92Nov20161857@marvin.ae.utexas.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 22:18:57 GMT
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- In-reply-to: barrett@iastate.edu's message of 13 Nov 92 21:25:17 GMT
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- In article Mark Sachs <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- >Perhaps my memory fails me, but I don't recall too many significant
- >instances of "liberals" fighting free speech, beyond a few trivial
- >and likely unconstitutional speech codes at universities, and a **JOKE**
- >posting proposing the rmgroup of alt.rush-limbaugh. In my experience
- >liberals have been quite forthright in defense of the First Amendment.
- >
- >Perhaps you can point out a few opposing examples for us?
-
- Glad to. I present the "MTV", "Pro-Choice Ticket":
-
- This brings up an issue which, surprisingly enough, received extremely
- little attention during the campaign. The one organization which IMHO
- has done more damage to our First Amendment rights over the last 10
- years is the Parental Music Resource Center (PMRC). This group was
- *founded* by Tipper Gore in (I believe) 1986. Among other activities,
- the PMRC is responsible for the Parental Warning Labels which appear
- on albums/cd's that have been deemed obscene.
-
- The role the PMRC has played in wasting tax dollars and literally
- destroying so called "porn rock" bands is deplorable. For example,
- the breakups of both Twisted Sister and the Dead Kennedys were
- precipitated by their legal battles with the PMRC. You may remember the
- Senate Hearings on Rock and Roll in which Frank Zappa John Denver, and
- Dee Snyder testified. These were called into session by none other
- than Al Gore when he was head of the Senate Commerce Committee!!
-
- So what, you say? Less than 50 albums were stickered from 1986 to
- 1990. Now they are extremely common. Moreover, there have recently
- been been cases in Florida and Texas where record store *owners* have
- been arrested for "distributing obscene materials to minors" because
- one of their clerks sold a stickered album to a minor.
-
- Because of all this controversy, many store owners will not even carry
- stickered or otherwise controversial albums. For example, since
- Ice-T's "Cop Killer" was banned, a record store here in Austin refuses
- to carry Bob Marley or Eric Clapton albums featuring the song "I Shot
- the Sherrif."
-
- The power that Tipper Gore enjoyed as the wife of a senator from
- Tennessee bodes very ill indeed for free speech now that she is to be
- the wife of the Vice-President.
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- Steven W. Bova |
- swb@cfdlab.ae.utexas.edu |
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