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Old 27th December 2009, 11:14
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Motion Picture ban.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-America.html

The Motion Picture "Creation" (2009) which opened to rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival this month has not been able to find a distributor in the United States of America because of the fear of a backlash from the Religious Right.

Most Christian denominations have accepted evolution as a scientific reality, saying that "Evolution Science tells us how God created Man, Religion Tells us Why."

Apparently this attitude is anathema to the Christian Right and they have been able to stifle this motion picture by intimidating producers in this country.

The film has either opened, or will be opening soon, in all of the other industrialized countries on Earth.

It's time the rest of us stood up on our hind legs and demanded that this type of censorship end!


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Old 29th December 2009, 16:02
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The United States of America was once [perhaps] a bastion of freedom of speech.

Not now.
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Old 1st January 2010, 12:24
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I have relations in San Diego, they reckon its a police state.
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If you are going to spew posts like this atleast stay up to date...Creation is scheduled for release in the US on 1-22-2010. This release has been scheduled since October 2009, long before your post. Also the movie was not being released because citizens voiced no interest as soon as there was interest a US film distributor picked it up. This is not censorship; its business sense. If there is no market, you don't produce; if there is, then you do...also known as capitalism.
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we'll have to wait and see
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The United States of America was once [perhaps] a bastion of freedom of speech.

Not now.
Two thumbs up with this one. Good point
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Two thumbs up with this one. Good point
There is more freedom of speech in the US than in some other countries. But there is less in the US than in some other countries and less in the US than there once was - an ominous trend.
Protests are now generally LICENSED to occur in "free speech zones." Apparently, anyplace outside a free speech zone is NOT available for the free expression of ideas - at least in the US.
The involvement of private wealth in public politics has moved the discussion of policy in the US in a decidedly rightward direction (no surprise, since the wealth establishment is invested in maintaining and expanding the redistribution of the nation's wealth into their own pockets). So, within pre-established zones, the US public is "free" to express views that are the result of listening to media that has been bought by the super-wealthy elitists who use the media they own to frame the discussion in ways that push their own private agenda. So you end up with a centrist like Obama being widely "thought" of as a liberal (who, once he compromises, will end up giving the US rightist and pro-elitist policies that further enrich the super-wealthy at the expense of we the people). And you end up with "populist" movements (like the tea party) that are either funded by the super-rich or influenced by propaganda pushed by the super-rich. These movements, and to a large degree the american people, think they are acting on behalf of "freedom" when in fact they are acting on behalf of the super-rich at the expense of freedom.
And if y'all in Britain think you are above all this - think again.
WE are in a war, folks. And WE are losing.
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