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Sep 22, 2004 Family Research council Rant |
Decency 1: Indecency $550,000
This has been a bad couple of weeks for CBS. First the news division was
caught in an attempt to mislead the public and today twenty CBS-affiliated
stations received the largest fine ever levied by the Federal Communications
Commission against indecency on television. Twenty CBS-affiliated stations
that carried the 2003 Super Bowl show in which singer Janet Jackson bared
her breast during her performance were fined the maximum of $27,500 for a
total fine of $550,000. While I'm encouraged that the FCC is now taking its
role seriously in enforcing decency standards on television, I am concerned
that they need the ability to levy fines that have a significant impact on
the pocketbooks of offenders. The fine of $550,000 is not even equal to the
cost of a thirty second Super Bowl ad. With your phone calls and letters,
the whole obscene half time show became the final straw for Congress and
they overwhelmingly passed the Broadcast Decency Act.
Currently the Broadcast Decency Act language is attached to the Defense
Authorization bill and needs your support to ensure it survives and is
signed by the President. We have been assured by the FCC that they will use
this legislation to clean up indecency on the airwaves. Had this bill been
the law at the time of the CBS-Janet Jackson performance, fines would have
totaled $5,500,000. CBS and the networks will quickly realize that higher
fines make indecency on TV cost prohibitive. Contact your Senators and
Congressmen today so that they ensure that the FCC is given the power to
deter future incidents of indecency.
Additional Resources
FRC's Letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell about Indecency at the Super
Bowl
http://www.frc.org/index.cfm?i=LH04B02&f=WU04I19&t=e
Contact Your Elected Officials
http://www.frc.org/index.cfm?i=LK04I48&f=WU04I19&t=e
Snowflake Children Blanket Capitol Hill
Today our friends at Focus on the Family hosted a press conference and
conducted lobbying visits to the lawmakers on Capitol Hill with "Snowflake
children" -- babies adopted as embryos and now living healthy lives as
children of loving parents. These families highlight the essential fact that
human embryos are human beings deserving the full love and protections
granted any child. We hear so often in the debate over embryonic stem cells
that the harvesting of stem cells from embryos does not destroy a human
life, and yet these Snowflake children prove otherwise.
If they had been used for research rather than having been adopted they
would not be taking their first steps and sharing their laughter with us
today. The ethical questions surrounding these issues are not merely
interesting questions for ethicists but have real, profound consequences
between life and death. The fact that we have more than 400,000 frozen
embryos in the United States (when Germany has only around 400) speaks to
the need for some regulation in artificial reproductive technologies. It is
an ethical nightmare that embryos are considered "spare" or "throw aways" in
this ghoulish bio-tech environment, but I am grateful for the Snowflake
families who came to Washington to remind us of the dignity of human life.
Additional Resources
The Viability of Frozen Human Embryos: Lessons From Animal Research
http://www.frc.org/index.cfm?i=IS04C01&f=WU04I19&t=e
FRC Welcomes Dr. David Prentice
Yesterday evening, Senator Sam Brownback joined me in hosting on Capitol
Hill a reception to introduce Dr. David Prentice. Dr. Prentice joined our
staff as the Senior Fellow for Life Sciences. We were joined not only by the
Senator but department officials, and Hill staffers. Dr. Prentice was
formerly a professor of life sciences at Indiana State University, and
adjunct professor of medical and molecular genetics for Indiana University
School of Medicine. He is a founding member of Do No Harm: The Coalition of
Americans for Research Ethics.
Before joining FRC, he provided scientific advice on stem cell research for
Sen. Sam Brownback, U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, other Members of Congress and the
administration, as well as foreign legislators and organizations. I am
thrilled to have a leading scientist in the field of cloning and stem cell
research on staff to provide a reasonable and expert voice as we prepare for
this new phase of the pro-life debate.
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| User: "Dennis Kemmerer" |
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| Title: Re: Sep 22, 2004 Family Research council Rant |
22 Sep 2004 11:10:40 PM |
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<tock@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Oyq4d.290$zc1.216@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
Decency 1: Indecency $550,000
This has been a bad couple of weeks for CBS. First the news division was
caught in an attempt to mislead the public and today twenty CBS-affiliated
stations received the largest fine ever levied by the Federal
Communications
Commission against indecency on television. Twenty CBS-affiliated stations
that carried the 2003 Super Bowl show in which singer Janet Jackson bared
her breast during her performance were fined the maximum of $27,500 for a
total fine of $550,000. While I'm encouraged that the FCC is now taking
its
I can't believe these goons still have their titties in a wringer (pardon
the pun) about that.
[snip remainder of 'janet's titty' rant]
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| User: "No One" |
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| Title: Re: Sep 22, 2004 Family Research council Rant |
23 Sep 2004 05:34:48 PM |
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"Dennis Kemmerer" <dk@suespammers.org> writes:
<tock@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Oyq4d.290$zc1.216@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
Decency 1: Indecency $550,000
This has been a bad couple of weeks for CBS. First the news division was
caught in an attempt to mislead the public and today twenty CBS-affiliated
stations received the largest fine ever levied by the Federal
Communications
Commission against indecency on television. Twenty CBS-affiliated stations
that carried the 2003 Super Bowl show in which singer Janet Jackson bared
her breast during her performance were fined the maximum of $27,500 for a
total fine of $550,000. While I'm encouraged that the FCC is now taking
its
I can't believe these goons still have their titties in a wringer (pardon
the pun) about that.
On a more local note,
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/22/BAGQO8SQIK1.DTL>
has an article about the so called "Naked Yoga Guy" who's antics have
freaked out a few people from out of town. It apparently isn't illegal
even if it does freak out some of the Christians:
"Being naked in San Francisco is not a crime,'' explained
D.A. spokeswoman Debbie Mesloh, "unless the gentleman had lewd
conduct or was obstructing traffic.''
And proving lewd conduct isn't all that easy, according to
prosecutors. Not after a California appellate court, ruling
that nudity itself is not a crime, struck down an indecent
exposure ruling four years ago against a 16- year-old Los
Angeles County teenager who mooned passing motorists from the
sidewalk.
After pointing out some (mostly) tourist-complaint-driven hassles
with the police, the article continued with ...
Still, he's not going away. His next stop: this weekend's
Folsom Street Fair, a much more conducive environment.
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| User: "Lord Calvert" |
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| Title: Re: Sep 22, 2004 Family Research council Rant |
23 Sep 2004 10:53:54 AM |
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This has been a bad couple of weeks for CBS. First the news division was
caught in an attempt to mislead the public and today twenty CBS-affiliated
stations received the largest fine ever levied by the Federal
Communications
Commission against indecency on television. Twenty CBS-affiliated stations
that carried the 2003 Super Bowl show in which singer Janet Jackson bared
her breast during her performance were fined the maximum of $27,500 for a
total fine of $550,000. While I'm encouraged that the FCC is now taking
its
I can't believe these goons still have their titties in a wringer (pardon
the pun) about that.
Anyone still believe that the conservatives are still the party of small
government and decreased federal regulation of private industry after this?
Might as well rename Bush's FCC "Pravda"
Rich Goranson, Amherst, NY, USA (aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1)
EAC Department of Applied Rattan Use
"Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking, which
leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy." - Robert Anton
Wilson
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