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EDITORIAL: Re Alleged Involvement of Free Speech TV and Court TV In a manage-a-trois with the ACLU!
"Censorship is the very foundation of stagnation and death among the cowardly who feel it necessary to exercise its impotent power."...Voltaire "Free speech is the right to shout FIRE in a crowded theater!"...Abbie Hoffman We have all seen, and signed however many times and however reluctantly, the same essential and indistinguishable TOS in order to post and blog on any forum throughout the Internet. And regardless of how much those same TOS differ in some small way they always have at the very end of them the catch all stipulation reserving for the "owners" of those forums and expensive servers(an individual can not afford) the right to delete anything they choose with out notice or ban anyone they choose...with out explanation. Such lopsided TOS speaks volumes about the POWER of who decides what is "fit for the net" as well as how seriously administrators take their "parental role" in protecting a well opiumized public from what you can see, as well as deciding, what you are going to see, not to mention, but just as important...what you WILL learn to tolerate.What this boils down to is that YOU are expected to censor yourself. Because we are all against the sexual exploitation of children and you can see such crimes being committed with in two clicks on the Internet and because you never choose to see them because you prefer instead to smell the flowers along the way, which are dieing from depleted uranium being used to impregnate the Earth, is proof enough that the only thing necessary for evil to go away...is never ever ever look Him in the face! Which is also why it is illegal to take pictures of flag draped coffins of dead soldiers because your government wants to protect your sensitive tummy from viewing such images. The scathing anti kiddie porn blog I wrote for Court TV was only one of many that will never be viewed by you due to the fact that they were all deleted virtually as soon as they were posted which also resulted in another poetic ID being forever and "permanently banned" from the Court TV Forum of "free speech". Free speech...which is protected, as it is on the Free Speech TV Forum, by the same Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval called the ACLU. Does anyone really know what the ACLU actually does besides collect money from well meaning bleeding heart liberals to pay the staff of lawyers at the ACLU's offices...to pay more lawyers to ask for more money...to pay more lawyers to do...what ever it is they do with their money? FREE SPEECH! Are they joking? The most critical political statement you can post on the Court TV Forum is based on the Nelsen ratings which is based on the irrefutable truth that if it would increase the popularity of Court TV by lowering the IQ of the liberated news commentators they have by giving them all stupidity pills...then that is why they put those medications in their water cooler. There is of course a lot to be said about not pushing the envelope of political correctness. And if we have established once and for all time that the world is round like we once established once and for all time that it is flat...then let us never again question the dimension of that very same World. Because questioning well established truths are bad. In fact questions themselves are what the real problem is. At any rate, do NOT accuse Free Speech TV, even jokingly, of being only slightly less "reactionary" than Court TV. Because that comment will be deleted.You can however feel free to call them un-American because they are not...they have now become horribly typical. Do not say that Desperate Housewives has more sex and a better plot than their show Gay USA, even though it does...because that comment will be deleted as well. And above all else do not be foolish and use obscenities or curse words or blasphemies or some other collection of letters like the Vietnamese syllable for Buddha or God...because it might be deleted and you wont know why...because those very same words are rampant all over both those forums. Like, everyone else, I am as opposed to people embracing as much as the next girl and I was going to commend Grit TV(A FSTV show.) on their excellent program and absurdly nervous laughter when they were advocating vibrators as a sexual weapon in the battle of the sexes but maybe I am just a sissy for not asking the question(out of fear of it being deleted)...WHY they left artificial vaginae out of the loop and the equation of that particular War...of Loneliness.. But you can only ask so many "politically incorrect", and of course, one "stupid question" after another before you begin to wonder...was I too Hispanic in saying I love Dave Chappelle but still want to marry Woopie? But then again, who doesn't? She is, by far, the most beautiful human in the world! And as far as I am concerned...even more intelligent and funnier than Chris Rock. So maybe...maybe...just maybe that is why my George Carlin video was never allowed to be posted to FSTV. He is too much of a drunken Native American. Honest to G-d and Allah, it is harder than firetrucking hell to know what is "politically correct" material...for a clown, let alone a mime...to talk about. But then hasn't it always been? Because my Obama post got deleted as well on Free Speech TV...so...so much about free speech...on TV! Oh hell, fair is fair. And I have to confess those are not the only sites I have had blogs deleted from and been banned from. Here is the short list. I had posts deleted and was banned forever from returning to http://forums.armageddononline.org/index.php But they had good reasons for doing that. I told a well known and very powerful white male international corporate mind there...to never speak to me again. Of course I was joking...I would talk the ear off of Hitler if he would have listened to me as I was being led into the ovens but you know how testy and vengeful male chauvinist pigs can be. Tell them zen said hello...and...I am NOT going away. Because I want everyone to know I must be doing something fertility rite...after all, my first post to a "non-racial" skin head site got deleted...and my second post there got me pages and pages and pages of death threats which, coming from a group which will bring brass knuckles and knives to a war using all of the weapons of mass destruction at humanity's disposal simultaneously ...I considered that to be an honor! But OMFG! I really couldn't count all the other places which welcomed my poems with open arms at dawn and then led me to the deletion bin...by dusk. So let me be FRANK...and you can be Joe or Josephine...how long do you seriously think this "editorial" is going to last before it is deleted? Try to loose the faith and if you need any help...don't go here ---> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 or here ---> http://bramin.wordpress.com/ but this next one has to be the funniest joke they are going to play on us for 4,500,000,000 years ...and that is only till half time! And of course I love Krishnamurti but even he would say that everything he said is full of poop by now...but I didn't forget to say... All my love I have never been able to give away...and then some, zen ;) and xox and >0< PS. I am worried to NOT advise that "discretion is advised" for this article or should I ask...for your safety...are editorials with questions in them allowed any where...at all? PPS. You have a wonderful day now!
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