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- From: steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter)
- Newsgroups: can.politics,soc.culture.canada
- Subject: Re: Virginie's TV violence petition
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.153715.13076@spxtech.qc.ca>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:37:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.222744.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Organization: Securiplex Technologies Inc., Montreal, Canada
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- From article <1992Nov20.222744.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, by 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque):
- > In article <1992Nov20.110332.4393@spxtech.qc.ca>, steven@spxtech.qc.ca (Steve Potter) writes:
- >
- > (I quote myself)
- >>> Have any of you guys seen the petition from a little girl named
- >>> Virginie[?]
- >
- > (Steve "English education" Potter)
- >
- >> Yes, I signed it.
- >>
- >> Does anybody want the text posted?
- >>
- >
- > Sure, Steve.
- >
-
- OK - Coming soon.
-
- > [me:-]
- >> Am I a moron because I believe there is too much gratuitous violence
- >> on TV - and I believe studies that have linked it to violence in
- >> society to one degree or another?
- >
- > [John/Jean:-]
- > Yeah, and they used to say that Jazz and Rock and Roll made black men want
- > to rape white women! And that Hallowe'en is Satanic too. .....
-
- and "immigrant" kids going to English is a threat to the French language?
-
- > ..... BTW you are a moron!
- >
-
- oh.
-
- >> I'd like to see less stylised violence and commercialism in kid's
- >> cartoons too.
- >
- > I'd like to shoot Strawberry Short cake and My Little Pony... Wile E kicks
- > their day anyday.
- >
- >> I'd also like to see permanent world peace.
- >> Am I dreaming? :-)
- >
- > Yeah, very much. BTW banning things is the ULTIMATE form of violence, taking
- > away consent from people and interfering in their lives. THAT is why we will
- > never have World Peace... blah blah blah
- >
- > By the way, give me Liberty or give me death (and kill Brian Mulroney and
- > Bou-bou)
- >
-
- I wonder what an experienced psychiatrist would make of M. LaRocque's
- postings (?)
-
- They are certainly entertaining. :-)
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