You yankies are so lucky that you have attorney generals like this who
take the responsibility upon themselves to see to it that you don't
listen to music that is "bad" for you! You don't even have to decide
for yourselves...isin't that just wonderful? Ignorance is just a
wonderful state of mind.
WH
'OutKast' not allowed in Kansas libraries
Friday, August 6, 2004 Posted: 7:41 PM EDT (2341 GMT)
OutKast, Notorious B.I.G., and Lou Reed are excluded from Klein's
"concept of decency."
"We feel we removed most of the albums that did not mesh with the
values of a majority of Kansans."
-- Whitney Watson, Kline's spokesperson
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
OutKast
Lou Reed
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- The Kansas attorney general has withheld
more than 1,600 compact discs from distribution to state libraries
because officials determined the albums promote violence or illegal
activity, records show.
The albums removed by Attorney General Phill Kline's office were part
of 51,000 discs given to Kansas as part of a nationwide settlement to
resolve allegations of price fixing.
The confiscated CDs included recordings by 25 musicians, including rap
artists such as OutKast and Notorious B.I.G., rock bands Rage Against
the Machine and Stone Temple Pilots, and even older acts such as Lou
Reed and the 1980s experimental group Devo.
The list of albums was obtained by The Associated Press last week
through an open-records request.
The American Civil Liberties Union said the decision amounted to
censorship.
"What he's doing is enforcing his concept of decency on libraries
around the state of Kansas, and that's not his business," said *****
Kurtenbach, executive director of the ACLU in Kansas and western
Missouri.
Whitney Watson, a spokesman for Kline, said the attorney general would
not discuss the screening of the CDs but said the decision to remove
some albums was made to ensure state officials were not disseminating
objectionable material.
Watson said the office's consumer-protection and antitrust division
vetted the list. In some cases, they were familiar enough with the
albums to determine if they had questionable content. In others, they
looked at Internet databases of lyrics.
"We don't have the manpower to look at every album and every song
lyric, but we feel we removed most of the albums that did not mesh
with the values of a majority of Kansans," she said.
Kansas is one of 40 states receiving the free CDs for public libraries
as part of a 2002 court settlement with the music industry over claims
of CD price-fixing.
Attorneys general in several other states also have screened their
CDs, often removing controversial artists or albums including explicit
lyrics. Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter removed 5,300 discs, or
5 percent of the 107,000 his state was scheduled to receive.
The Kansas Library Association, which advocates for public libraries,
said it had no objection to the attorney general's actions.
"This was very similar to what libraries do all the time," said
Rosanne Siemens, the group's executive director. "It wasn't so much an
issue of taking things out but determining what would be best. They
did libraries a big favor by selecting these CDs because there's no
way libraries could have said what they wanted."
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| User: "Jean Guernon" |
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07 Aug 2004 01:21:37 PM |
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Prevention of the promoting of violence... yeah, very lucky.
Imagine if that would be in the Arab news world, no more news left. LOL
J.
bollogs a écrit:
You yankies are so lucky that you have attorney generals like this who
take the responsibility upon themselves to see to it that you don't
listen to music that is "bad" for you! You don't even have to decide
for yourselves...isin't that just wonderful? Ignorance is just a
wonderful state of mind.
WH
'OutKast' not allowed in Kansas libraries
Friday, August 6, 2004 Posted: 7:41 PM EDT (2341 GMT)
OutKast, Notorious B.I.G., and Lou Reed are excluded from Klein's
"concept of decency."
"We feel we removed most of the albums that did not mesh with the
values of a majority of Kansans."
-- Whitney Watson, Kline's spokesperson
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
OutKast
Lou Reed
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- The Kansas attorney general has withheld
more than 1,600 compact discs from distribution to state libraries
because officials determined the albums promote violence or illegal
activity, records show.
The albums removed by Attorney General Phill Kline's office were part
of 51,000 discs given to Kansas as part of a nationwide settlement to
resolve allegations of price fixing.
The confiscated CDs included recordings by 25 musicians, including rap
artists such as OutKast and Notorious B.I.G., rock bands Rage Against
the Machine and Stone Temple Pilots, and even older acts such as Lou
Reed and the 1980s experimental group Devo.
The list of albums was obtained by The Associated Press last week
through an open-records request.
The American Civil Liberties Union said the decision amounted to
censorship.
"What he's doing is enforcing his concept of decency on libraries
around the state of Kansas, and that's not his business," said *****
Kurtenbach, executive director of the ACLU in Kansas and western
Missouri.
Whitney Watson, a spokesman for Kline, said the attorney general would
not discuss the screening of the CDs but said the decision to remove
some albums was made to ensure state officials were not disseminating
objectionable material.
Watson said the office's consumer-protection and antitrust division
vetted the list. In some cases, they were familiar enough with the
albums to determine if they had questionable content. In others, they
looked at Internet databases of lyrics.
"We don't have the manpower to look at every album and every song
lyric, but we feel we removed most of the albums that did not mesh
with the values of a majority of Kansans," she said.
Kansas is one of 40 states receiving the free CDs for public libraries
as part of a 2002 court settlement with the music industry over claims
of CD price-fixing.
Attorneys general in several other states also have screened their
CDs, often removing controversial artists or albums including explicit
lyrics. Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter removed 5,300 discs, or
5 percent of the 107,000 his state was scheduled to receive.
The Kansas Library Association, which advocates for public libraries,
said it had no objection to the attorney general's actions.
"This was very similar to what libraries do all the time," said
Rosanne Siemens, the group's executive director. "It wasn't so much an
issue of taking things out but determining what would be best. They
did libraries a big favor by selecting these CDs because there's no
way libraries could have said what they wanted."
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| User: "bollogs" |
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| Title: Re: Free speech...the yankie way! |
08 Aug 2004 03:53:15 AM |
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Jean Guernon <jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote in message news:<R49Rc.21259137$Id.3521919@news.easynews.com>...
Prevention of the promoting of violence... yeah, very lucky.
Imagine if that would be in the Arab news world, no more news left. LOL
J.
Yeah no more yankies to kill or no more yankies killing!
Tell me something guernon...do you take the yankie balls an' all or
just the *****? Do you swallow?
Lets have it...you never know...maybe we can convince macdonald to
have a golden shower with you. He likes foreigners...although they
have to be yankie *****-sucking Canadians 'cos that's all he
knows...Canada exists alltså....the rest of the world is too far away
for him...lucky us actually...the last thing we need right now is a
yankie ***** drinking perv and a Canadian warewolf pissin' on him.
Go on hairball...shake it on him!
WH
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| User: "Jean Guernon" |
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| Title: Re: Free speech...the yankie way! |
09 Aug 2004 12:20:50 PM |
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bollogs a écrit:
Jean Guernon <jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote in message news:<R49Rc.21259137$Id.3521919@news.easynews.com>...
Prevention of the promoting of violence... yeah, very lucky.
Imagine if that would be in the Arab news world, no more news left. LOL
J.
Yeah no more yankies to kill or no more yankies killing!
Tell me something guernon...do you take the yankie balls an' all or
just the *****? Do you swallow?
No thanks.
You project your own phantasm on me now, KKKriSS?
Sorry, me, I am not into that. Never have been. You will have to look
somewhere else.
Try another NG. There must be an alt.***** just for you, and leave apn
alone. It is for people interested in Nostradamus AND the truth.
You don't belong here. People here don't try their homosexual slurs in
reply to serious contention about liberal assholes.
Go back to your alt.***** NG KKKriSS.
J.
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| User: "Cuan" |
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10 Aug 2004 03:34:44 AM |
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On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 18:21:37 GMT, Jean Guernon
<jguernon@globetrotter.net> wrote:
Prevention of the promoting of violence... yeah, very lucky.
Imagine if that would be in the Arab news world, no more news left. LOL
Such a silly little moron.
bollogs a écrit:
You yankies are so lucky that you have attorney generals like this who
take the responsibility upon themselves to see to it that you don't
listen to music that is "bad" for you! You don't even have to decide
for yourselves...isin't that just wonderful? Ignorance is just a
wonderful state of mind.
WH
'OutKast' not allowed in Kansas libraries
Friday, August 6, 2004 Posted: 7:41 PM EDT (2341 GMT)
OutKast, Notorious B.I.G., and Lou Reed are excluded from Klein's
"concept of decency."
"We feel we removed most of the albums that did not mesh with the
values of a majority of Kansans."
-- Whitney Watson, Kline's spokesperson
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
OutKast
Lou Reed
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- The Kansas attorney general has withheld
more than 1,600 compact discs from distribution to state libraries
because officials determined the albums promote violence or illegal
activity, records show.
The albums removed by Attorney General Phill Kline's office were part
of 51,000 discs given to Kansas as part of a nationwide settlement to
resolve allegations of price fixing.
The confiscated CDs included recordings by 25 musicians, including rap
artists such as OutKast and Notorious B.I.G., rock bands Rage Against
the Machine and Stone Temple Pilots, and even older acts such as Lou
Reed and the 1980s experimental group Devo.
The list of albums was obtained by The Associated Press last week
through an open-records request.
The American Civil Liberties Union said the decision amounted to
censorship.
"What he's doing is enforcing his concept of decency on libraries
around the state of Kansas, and that's not his business," said *****
Kurtenbach, executive director of the ACLU in Kansas and western
Missouri.
Whitney Watson, a spokesman for Kline, said the attorney general would
not discuss the screening of the CDs but said the decision to remove
some albums was made to ensure state officials were not disseminating
objectionable material.
Watson said the office's consumer-protection and antitrust division
vetted the list. In some cases, they were familiar enough with the
albums to determine if they had questionable content. In others, they
looked at Internet databases of lyrics.
"We don't have the manpower to look at every album and every song
lyric, but we feel we removed most of the albums that did not mesh
with the values of a majority of Kansans," she said.
Kansas is one of 40 states receiving the free CDs for public libraries
as part of a 2002 court settlement with the music industry over claims
of CD price-fixing.
Attorneys general in several other states also have screened their
CDs, often removing controversial artists or albums including explicit
lyrics. Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter removed 5,300 discs, or
5 percent of the 107,000 his state was scheduled to receive.
The Kansas Library Association, which advocates for public libraries,
said it had no objection to the attorney general's actions.
"This was very similar to what libraries do all the time," said
Rosanne Siemens, the group's executive director. "It wasn't so much an
issue of taking things out but determining what would be best. They
did libraries a big favor by selecting these CDs because there's no
way libraries could have said what they wanted."
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