Comments on: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:14:46 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peter Whelan http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comment-20100 Peter Whelan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20100 If 9,999 people had viewed Bill Henson’s photographs of a naked young girl and admired them for their portrayal of the innocence of youth, by the use of shadow, compassionate use of balance, texture and sensitive, yet vulnerable pose, that would not be a problem. However, if one person who viewed those same photographs became aroused, filled with sexual desire and uncontrollable urges, then the “problem” is surely with that person, not the photographs, the camera or the photographer. If 9,999 people who own firearms handle them with safety and respect, as a piece of metal and wood, used as a tool of trade, or a piece of sporting equipment, that is not a problem. However, if one person takes the same firearm and it arouses in him so much hatred and anger that it causes him to take it and shoot someone, surely that one person has the problem. But our government, bureaucrats and police introduced gun bans, rather than tackle the one person in one thousand who may suffer from a deep seated psychological problem. So now we are witnessing extreme censorship. Conclusion: Mind Control, brought to us by the same people who brought us Gun Control. What’s next? A Camera buy back and crushing program? If 9,999 people had viewed Bill Henson’s photographs of a naked young girl and admired them for their portrayal of the innocence of youth, by the use of shadow, compassionate use of balance, texture and sensitive, yet vulnerable pose, that would not be a problem. However, if one person who viewed those same photographs became aroused, filled with sexual desire and uncontrollable urges, then the “problem” is surely with that person, not the photographs, the camera or the photographer.

If 9,999 people who own firearms handle them with safety and respect, as a piece of metal and wood, used as a tool of trade, or a piece of sporting equipment, that is not a problem. However, if one person takes the same firearm and it arouses in him so much hatred and anger that it causes him to take it and shoot someone, surely that one person has the problem.

But our government, bureaucrats and police introduced gun bans, rather than tackle the one person in one thousand who may suffer from a deep seated psychological problem. So now we are witnessing extreme censorship.
Conclusion:
Mind Control, brought to us by the same people who brought us Gun Control.

What’s next? A Camera buy back and crushing program?

]]> By: digby http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/27/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comment-20101 digby Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-20101 Is the Eddie Maguire who so vehemently defends Sam's activities on the Footy Show the same Eddie who is part of the PM's social Inclusion board? Is the Eddie Maguire who so vehemently defends Sam’s activities on the Footy Show the same Eddie who is part of the PM’s social Inclusion board?

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