OFF: Freeedom of Speech

[pete howe]

or..freeeeeeedom for George Bush to do as he pleases???(And Tony Bliar the
nodding dog to suck up behind him?)
When youve got a leader who says "most of our imports come from abroad", and
"God spoke to me and told me to go and finish the job my father couldnt
finish" ..be afraid..be very afraid!!
         pete

p.s.-however...  I can forgive Dave Brock for constantly saying
"skellingtons" instead of "skeletons"(!) :-)
                      ~
   "when i pay my rent, the police come round to ask me where i got the
money from" (Alexei Sayle)            ~
    "i was born with  nothing, and i still have most of it"
                     ~

>From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Subject: Re: OFF: Freeedom of Speech
>Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:53:39 GMT
>
>Paul Mather writes:
>
> > I guess it's all in the perception.  When I read the above, my immediate
> > take was that they're just compensating for general audience ignorance
> > (who probably don't know Islam from Adam:); your take was Political
> > Correctness.  Who's to know?  I guess if they really wanted to toady out
> > of fear, they'd append "(peace be upon him)" after every mention of the
> > term "The Prophet Mohammed..." ;-)
>
>Heh, friends of mine who aren't active or even particularly interested
>in the FoS arena have started using "Mohammed, peace be upon him" as a
>kind of caricature. These are Leftie sorts who'd rather cut off their
>own balls than be thought racists and I think it's a sign that even they
>think the pudding has been overegged by protesting Muslims.
>
>For myself, I find it absolutely bizarre that in a week of new
>revelations about abuse at Abu Ghraib that there are still people
>marching to whine about cartoons.
>
>The Alliance should move everyone out of Abu Ghraib and raze the
>frigging place to the ground by way of demonstrating our disgust at what
>Saddam did with the place and at ourselves for allowing our own guys to
>follow his example.
>
>FoFP
>
>P.S: Went to see "Munich" this weekend. Spielberg seems to have
>exorcised his Schmaltz Demon. It makes for an interesting if overlong
>movie, though I wish I knew which parts he'd just made up.

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