| Show Passionate About The Passion Aaron Zundel Staff Writer Mel Gibson has come under a lotof lot lotof of fire as of late about his new movies The Passion The movies graphically details the thelast thelast thelast last twelve hours of the life of Jesus A figure from an ancient I text called The Bible for those of you who live in a cave The defamation Anti-defamation League has condemned the film on grounds that it is Semitic anti-Semitic anti- anti Jewish and has demanded that the film either be re-edited re or not released I only have one response to this GOOD GRA GRAVY WHAT ON EARTH IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE I vaguely remember something about freedom of speech somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where in a dusty old document called the constitution I also seem to remember that the document document document docu docu- ment also has something about freedom of expression If Mel Gibson wanted to make movies rv I about Neo-Nazism Neo that denied the holocaust and showed ritual executions x s of of b black ack people he has every right to do so so By the way there was a movie like that it was called American History X If you dont don't like it DONT DON'T WATCH IT Ive I've seen a painting that depicted depict depict- ed Christ with people in the background doing things that would make a sailor blush The painting was supposed to be bez z some kind of statement on the corruption of the Christian values values values val val- ues of the twentieth century or orsome orsome some such thing Did I see the message No Did I find it offensive Incredibly Did I demand that it be taken down and locked way or and changed to suit my sensibilities No way Would I die to protect the artists right to keep producing such in my opinion offensive trash Without a doubt I found the painting offensive so guess what I did I stopped looking at it and moved on Freedom is a edged double-edged sword people and you have to accept that Because we dont don't all agree on what is good and what is bad we cant can't very well make the good things legal and andall andall andall all the bad things illegal Unfortunately people have a anasty anasty anasty nasty habit of taking advantage of situations so if we make one exception be it for Mels Mel's movie or my painting soon Parental groups will be censoring Sesame Street because they will demand that Sesame Street cease and desist all relationships business and otherwise with the letter F P Last weeks show was brought to tous tous tous us by the letter F they dont don't want Sesame Street affiliating with the letter F because of its it's involvement with the mother of all curse words You may laugh but the reality of it is scarier than you think Censorship has reared its ugly head in hi our country country before ever hear of the McCarthy hearings How about the Comics Code Authority set up a bunch of rules about the content that could and could not be in comics The started out with the best of intentions but the road to hell is paved with those eventually eventually eventually ally the began to mandate ludicrous things like Batman and Robin had spend more time apart and with women as not to suggest suggest suggest sug sug- gest a homosexual relationship I can just see it now Twenty years from now we will have to stand in front of a committee and say something like I was not associated with nor did I ever watch The Passion t |
