GHOSTS OF MORALISTS PAST
“Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.”
We all can see the irony in The Who’s lyrics when we look at how the country has remained a twisted version of The 700 Club. It seems our moralists haven’t evolved with the times either (probably because they would be kicked out of the Creationists Club).
In 1997, Oklahoma banned the film THE TIN DRUM based on the allegations that it was child pornography. Any cinephile familiar with this German Oscar winner knows they were full of beans when they made this charge. Thankfully, the courts of the time agreed.
What’s interesting to me was how the puritanicals of OCAF (Oklahomans For Children and Family) and the moralists of Bush’s America sing the same, bizarre view of the world. Here are some "bon mots" from the documentary BANNED IN OKLAHOMA which can be found on the very fine Criterion DVD of THE TIN DRUM. These people fighting for our souls today still believe the delusions of yesterday.
“...mental and psychological abuse, I think, comes in the forms
of many of the things that our library thrusts in the faces of our
families today.” - Carol Hefner - OCAF Member
Beware of the library pushers! They have an agenda. They want you to think. Libraries wish they had this kind of influence. Alas, most people in this country wouldn’t piddle on a library if it were on fire. Maybe it’s because they resent all those library pushers shoving books down our windpipes. Bastards!
“I think we all would agree that Hollywood and the people in
the awards thing are very, very liberal and, of course, back in
1979 when this film came out, they would certainly give a film
like that an award just to legitamize it. To make it seem like
“Look what’s happening in Europe. We ought to...we’re behind
the scenes here in the United States. We need to have more sex
and more kids having sex here in our films.”
- Col. Bob Anderson - OCAF President
That’s right, folks. At long last I can reveal the dark truth of Hollywood. We want kids to have sex. Protected sex. Often. Why? Because we want to be just like those perverted Europeans. The ones who gave birth to Western culture. The culture that brought us all those bare breasted statues like the ones in the Vatican and the one Ashcroft had clothed in the Justice Department. (As a sidenote, I wonder how much it will cost to undo Ashcroft’s defacement of Justice.)
These are the people we're dealing with! God, help us, indeed.
We all can see the irony in The Who’s lyrics when we look at how the country has remained a twisted version of The 700 Club. It seems our moralists haven’t evolved with the times either (probably because they would be kicked out of the Creationists Club).
In 1997, Oklahoma banned the film THE TIN DRUM based on the allegations that it was child pornography. Any cinephile familiar with this German Oscar winner knows they were full of beans when they made this charge. Thankfully, the courts of the time agreed.
What’s interesting to me was how the puritanicals of OCAF (Oklahomans For Children and Family) and the moralists of Bush’s America sing the same, bizarre view of the world. Here are some "bon mots" from the documentary BANNED IN OKLAHOMA which can be found on the very fine Criterion DVD of THE TIN DRUM. These people fighting for our souls today still believe the delusions of yesterday.
“...mental and psychological abuse, I think, comes in the forms
of many of the things that our library thrusts in the faces of our
families today.” - Carol Hefner - OCAF Member
Beware of the library pushers! They have an agenda. They want you to think. Libraries wish they had this kind of influence. Alas, most people in this country wouldn’t piddle on a library if it were on fire. Maybe it’s because they resent all those library pushers shoving books down our windpipes. Bastards!
“I think we all would agree that Hollywood and the people in
the awards thing are very, very liberal and, of course, back in
1979 when this film came out, they would certainly give a film
like that an award just to legitamize it. To make it seem like
“Look what’s happening in Europe. We ought to...we’re behind
the scenes here in the United States. We need to have more sex
and more kids having sex here in our films.”
- Col. Bob Anderson - OCAF President
That’s right, folks. At long last I can reveal the dark truth of Hollywood. We want kids to have sex. Protected sex. Often. Why? Because we want to be just like those perverted Europeans. The ones who gave birth to Western culture. The culture that brought us all those bare breasted statues like the ones in the Vatican and the one Ashcroft had clothed in the Justice Department. (As a sidenote, I wonder how much it will cost to undo Ashcroft’s defacement of Justice.)
These are the people we're dealing with! God, help us, indeed.
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