Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In France at least, even politician are allowed to fuck around! At 02:56 26/03/1998 -0500, you wrote: >Sorry Joseph, > >I have to jump in on this one. I agree that the posting in question was >improper, offensive, tasteless, and stupid. However I couldn't agree less >with you about the points you make. That we can make criticisms of those in >high office, whether tasteless or not, is a very important part of our right >to free speech. It must be exercised in order to prove that we still have >it. > >And as far as ours being a perverted society, that it is. However it's most >likely not perverted because some of its citizens indulge in pornography, >but precisely because of the attitudes of the great majority of its >citizenry who profess out of one side of their mouths a puritanistic >distaste for and disinterest in anything sexual, and out of the other the >kind of base and lewed view of human sexuality that we see depicted in the >posting. > >We would be much better off if we had a healthy, adult understanding of sex >and sexuality such as we see in societies such as France, Italy, and the >Scandinavian countries. In these countries, you don't see the government >spending millions to investigate what the president or some other high >official did or does with his or someone else's sex organs. They accept the >fact that their leaders are human beings and that their sexuality is >separate fromt their ability to govern and lead judiciously. They don't >expect them to be saints. > >Bruce S. >-----Original Message----- >From: Joseph Codispoti <joecodi@thegrid.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 10:30 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 Glory and Improper Posting > > >> >> >>That in this country it is permissible to demean, denigrate and humiliate >>the President or his Office publicly in words, print, or actions, is not >>freedom at all. It is license to be ignorant, uncouth, and vulgar. The >>gullible many believe that the presidency is sacrosanct and pure. The rest >>seem to indulge in permissiveness that serves only to shows to the rest of >>the world that we are indeed a perverted society. >>Joseph Codispoti >> >> >> >> > >