Banning F*%& S#@@%^ And Labelling By The Left...

Free Speech (F*%& S#@@%^) and expression not tolerated by the left and will have them rushing to the closet to get out their sandals and tie die blouses and a copy of Mao's Red Book which is a primer on how to attack those that have not mixed up the polygrip and preperation h.

Flash mobs, grievance-stokers, and RAAAAAACISM!


August 17, 2011 11:36 PM by Michelle Malkin 25 Comments

Looking For Universities/Colleges That HAVE NOT Beem Hijacked...

...left wing anarchists whose vision of Freedom Of Expression is 180 degrees from the vision of most persons in a democracy. Waterloo, York, Calgary, Ryerson, etc. etc. etc.
Ryerson University Public Affairs Department: 2008-09 Gaza War was a “massacre”


Look what just landed in Canadian journalists’ inboxes, from the same university that provides gainful employment to Jennifer Peto and Judy Rebick

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:41:41 -0600

Subject: Ryerson Faculty Expert available to speak on Gaza Massacre anniversary
Good Morning, The following Ryerson University faculty member is available to speak on the second year anniversary of the Gaza Massacre:

Alan Sears
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology Ryerson University 416-979-5000

Looking for other experts to round out your new stories? Please visit Ryerson’s online faculty experts guide at: www.ryerson.ca/news/media/facultyexperts

What a great way to “round out” a story … with a sound bite from an Israel Apartheid Week activist who apparently thinks that Israel’s effort to suppress rocket fire against its towns constitutes a “massacre.”

Protecting Someone Somewhere...

Censorship And Political Correctness...

Talk about money for nothing
Jan 14, 2011 7:50PM EST


In arriving at its small-minded decision on the Dire Straits song, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council may have got a blister on its thumb

Money For Nothing Is The Thin Edge Of The Wedge Of Mind Cntrol...

...here's my Top 10 Moses. Not a single song on the list but just wait.

Matt Gurney: If we’re banning songs, let’s ban these too

On Wednesday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council released a decision banning original versions of Dire Strait’s 1985 smash hit Money for Nothing from our radio waves due to the use of the word “faggot” in the song. The CBSC opened their investigation after a complaint from a listener in Newfoundland, and concluded the song breaches several of its policies designed to protect Canadians from “abusive or unduly discriminatory material.” Bizarrely, though the CBSC permits the use of offensive language if it has fictional merit (for example, racist language in a movie set during the South during the Civil War), it did not apply this exemption to Money for Nothing, despite its use in the song being self-evidently not an example of prejudice, but of commentary on a prejudiced person who would use such a term. Given the precedent set by the CBSC, will the following songs be next?

The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun (1968): It hardly seems necessary to explain this one. Happiness is a warm gun, bang bang, shoot shoot? Yikes. Can we say “incitement to violence?” What’s the point in registering guns if the Fab Four can just go out and call them neato? Better get this off the air, pronto, before some poor gentle soul happens to be listening to it while surfing Sarah Palin’s Facebook page, leading instantaneously to a violent rampage.

Jimmy Hendrix, Hey Joe (1966): A man finds out that his wife has been having an affair (running all over town), so logically, he goes after her with a gun in his hand, and plans to flee to Mexico after murdering her. So that’s violence against woman, unsafe use of a firearm and illegal immigration all in one. Sorry, Jimmy. You’re banned.

Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues (1955): It doesn’t matter if you regret what you did and hang your head and cry when all the rich folk ride past in a train, drinking coffee and smoking big cigars. You should have listened when your mom told you to always be a good boy and never play with guns, but instead, you shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. Sorry, Johnny. No way we can expose Canadians to this. Banned.

Frank Loesser, Baby, It’s Cold Outside (1944): This song can be summed up in two words: Illegal confinement. Date rape. Banned!

Collective Soul, The World I Know (1995): Look, I don’t really know what this song is about, just that I listened to it a lot during high school, and it talks about a guy who’s crying, walking up on high and stepping to the edge. Where is he walking? What edge is he at? Who knows? If it prevents one crying man from jumping off a bridge (or a cliff, or a balcony, or a roof), though, this song has got to go.

Elton John, Jamaica Jerk-Off (1973): Again, not really sure what’s going on in this song, but let’s just deem it both racist and overtly sexual and call it a day. It’s not exactly I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues, anyway, so no big loss.

Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, The Ballad of Mack the Knife (1928): Mack is a bad dude, guys. In the English version of the German ballad first popularized by Bobby Darin, Mack stabs a guy, robs another, and is seen possibly throwing a body into the river. And that’s tame compared to the original version, where he rapes a widow and commits arson. How can we be a progressive nation when we let filth like this play on easy listening and swinging standards stations? Old people are impressionable too, you know.

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You (1967): Is this a love song, or a song about an obsessive man stalking a woman who, as he readily admits, is too good be to true, thus suggesting some degree of mental illness? I’m not sure, and you can’t be either, so, sorry, cast of Jersey Boys. You’ve been promoting criminal behaviour all along.

Huey Lewis and the News, I Want a New Drug (1984): No explanation required. But at least it gave the Ghostbusters theme something to work with.



National Post

mgurney@nationalpost.com

Freedom Of Expression Massacre...

...stay tuned for memorial service!

Only In Canada You Say....

Canada, the world’s most easily offended country

You may have noticed the global snort of derision when it became known that Money For Nothing, a 25-year-old Dire Straits song written by Mark Knopfler and Sting, has been ruled too offensive for Canadian radio play.

What’s interesting, apart from the simple lunacy of suddenly banning a tune that’s 25 years old and has already been played about a billion times, is the reason: A radio station in St. John’s received a complaint.

That’s all it takes in Canada: One person to take offense. Read More »

Twain Refused Passage On The Underground Railroad...

Root Cause Of Hysteria...

...IMHO is the mainstream media and the Jones debacle is a prime example. I will admit that their is a fine line between the publics right to know and censorship but there has to be a point where the media walks away but right now this doesn't happen until some more outrageous comes along.

Muslims fear Muslims more than Jones


By SALIM MANSUR, QMI Agency

Over the past few weeks the mainstream media in the U.S. provided a textbook lesson of how to inflate an obscure story, and by implication suggest an overwhelming majority of Americans are perilously close to being bigots in opposing the building of the Ground Zero mosque in New York City.

Characteristics Of The Left Wing...

Atwood’s U.S. sellout

By KORY TENEYCKE, QMI Agency

Earlier this week, Avaaz, an American special interest group funded by U.S. billionaire George Soros, circulated a petition opposing the television licence for Sun TV News — Quebecor’s proposed all-news channel for English Canada

Canadian author Atwood pushing petition challenging 'FOX North'

By JOE WARMINGTON, Toronto Sun

Last Updated: September 2, 2010 6:53pm

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Margaret Atwood believes in freedom of speech for her own works.
But she doesn’t seem as enthusiastic about the concept for others espousing views she apparently doesn’t like.
Has the legendary Canadian author, famous for such novels as The Edible Woman, become The Censorship Woman?
The Giller Prize winning author and our most prestigious writer lent her signature to a U.S-based petition to stop a new Sun Media all-news network may be one of the most ironic, hypocritical plays in Canadian history.
“Prime Minister Harper is trying to push American-style hate media onto our air waves, and make us all pay for it,” says the petition with 45,000 signatures on Avaaz.org. “His plan is to create a ‘Fox News North’ to mimic the kind of hate-filled propaganda with which Fox News has poisoned U.S. politics.”
Despite being vitriolic and inaccurate, the recipient of the Governor General Award Tweeted Wednesday “we shouldn’t B Forced to Pay for it, & CRTC chair should be arms’ length, not Harper tool. Fox free 2 set itself up.”
Pretty rich talk about a free market from someone who comes from the Canada Council grant culture. It’s especially shocking coming from a Companion of the Order of Canada who I have yet to see at a pro-troops rally or along the Highway of Heroes.
Her freedoms were fought for and won by Canadian soldiers.
Her ravings match those of the elitist left that were terrified about Conrad Black controlling so much of the Canadian media, but were not at all vocal when Liberal-backers later bought the same newspaper chain.
It’s selective censorship coming from the 70-year-old literary icon who once threatened to boycott a book tour in Dubai because of the banning of a book which featured a gay character.
The book wasn’t banned, and nor will this new TV network, no matter how many signatures they get for the petition.
As Atwood knows, Canada covets, cherishes and practices freedom of the press.
“I don’t remember seeing her launching a campaign against Al Jazeera when it filed for a license from CRTC,” noted Kevin Gaudet of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation. “Pushing the petition against SUN TV demonstrates her opposition to free speech. Currently taxpayers are forced to pay $1.1 billion a year for the CBC and now Atwood and her ilk want to deprive Canadians of even having the choice to view SUN TV.”
It’s astonishing, especially for someone famous for her 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, a story about the perils of a totalitarian regime.
“So disappointing you’d put your name to anti-free speech movement,” Sun Media’s Ottawa Bureau Chief David Akin poignantly wrote in a return Tweet.
Atwood fired back: “Free speech does not mean under-the-carpet deals that would force people to pay for Fox out of cable fees.”
She did not return my request for an interview but she wasn’t backing down Thursday, telling the Globe and Mail “some people signing the petition object to the expected content. I object to the process. It’s the pressure on yet another civil servant that bothers me.”
And yet the petition does not talk about the process, but instead viciously and erroneously states Harper is trying to “push American-style hate media onto our air waves” which is clearly unfair and arguably libellous.
She tried to weasel out by telling the Globe “of course Fox & Co. can set up a channel. . .if it’s legal” but “it shouldn’t happen this way,” calling the approach “part of the ‘I make the rules around here,’ Harper-is-a-king thing.”
But it’s disingenuous because you either support the petition or you don’t.
She certainly feels entitled to the right to express her opinion but has no problem assisting a movement trying muzzle those of others.
Wonder if she will object so obstreperously if asked to come on the network to promote a new book?
Maybe that one will be called The Hypocrisy Woman?

Atwood’s U.S. sellout

Teneycke: Icon’s ignorant attack confirms just why Canada needs Sun TV News. Earlier this week, Avaaz, an American special interest group funded by U.S. billionaire George Soros, circulated a petition opposing the television licence for Sun TV News.. MORE...

The blind protester

Selley: 'Not about content, 4 me; about process, & a commercial station exacting forced fees. CBC was set up as a service, not a biz." The most accomplished CanLit expert might struggle to recognize the prose, but that's none other than Margaret Atwood.. MORE...

Soros trying to keep conservative Canadian TV channel off the air

My new post at David Horowitz's NewsReal blog looks at the unprincipled (and error filled) petition being circulated by a George Soros-funded leftist group to keep Sun TV News off the Canadian airwaves.

# Kathy Shaidle :

The Thin Edge Of The Internet Control Wedge

Canada wins Facebook fight

by Joanna Smith

57 min. ago

Nicole Lace wants to be the one in charge of how much the rest of the world knows about her life.

Putting a price tag on cyber-bullying

Kathleen Parker Aug. 27, 2009 When Oscar Wilde observed that the only thing worse than being talked about is ...

Lawyer fights to unmask City Hall blogger
A Winnipeg privacy lawyer is attempting to unmask the author of a controversial city hall blog -- potentially ending a mystery that has surrounded Ottawa politics since 2008.

This Has Got To Be An Urban Legend

Dutch Cartoonist Jailed

For this.

Correction: The cartoon shown is from the Halifax Chronicle Herald, who are also being dragged before a HRC for publishing it. No jail time, though.

Yet.

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Thank Gawd For People Like Girl On The Right, et al

Saturday, November 24, 2007

When we are silenced, will the men speak up?

So they finally admitted it. The Canadian Human Rights Commission finally admitted what they are really about: Censorship.

And, he says, when he had a conversation with a Commission employee, mediator Bob Fagan, about the specifics of the allegation, he was astonished at what he heard.
"I told him that it seemed to be an abuse of the Human Rights Act for someone to try and use it as an instrument of censorship. And when I said that, on the phone, there was a pause and then he said, in a somewhat astonished tone: 'But the Human Rights Act is about censorship'. Then it was my turn to be silent on my end, because I found that breath-taking. For the Human Rights Commission's own mediator to acknowledge that censorship was the purpose of their Act."

From the horse's mouth. So can we now, in good conscience, allow it to continue? We've basically been told that - like under communist regimes - our speech and opinions are being silenced to the whims of political correctness.

Kathy wrote about this issue yesterday:

I hope Emmanuel isn't counting on getting support from the cowardly, careerist "conservative" male bloggers in this nation, who time and again have revealed themselves to be more interested in watching Family Guy than fighting for what's right.

It's true. The likes of the Blogging Tories and their ilk are more interested in preparing graphs and poll numbers, visions of party wonk jobs dancing in their uninspired heads, to bother to stand up and shout for the very things the party is supposed to represent.

Kathy, Kate and I can be out there shouting like Canadian Coulters, drawing attention to issues that affect us all and getting people talking, and all the while the men write us off as "too controversial" and kick us out of their clubhouses. When one of us gets a death threat, we only have each other to depend on - Stephen Taylor et al are too busy agreeing with those who seek to silence us, so that maybe they'll be seen as progressive enough score a policy job.

To be clear, we don't expect every conservative in Canada to agree with us - heck, we don't even agree with each other half the time - but when we're out there stirring up the bigger issues that affect not only this country but civilization as we know it, we would very much appreciate it if you would quit slagging dead-horse Stephane Dion long enough to defend our right to say the things we're saying, instead of just knee-jerking us in the balls you are oh so jealous we possess.

The following are the COMMENTS on the Free Dominion website that have sparked an official Canadian government accusation of hate speech:"I can't figure out why the homosexuals I ran into are on the side of the Muslims. After all, Muslims who practice Sharia law tend to advocate beheading homosexuals.""I defy Islamic censorship and speak about what I believe is the truth about violent Islamism and its threat to religious liberty in Canada."

Canada's Human Rights Commission Used to Target Conservative Website With "Hate Speech"

Free Dominion website not yet given any details

By Peter J. Smith

OTTAWA, July 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Free Dominion, a Canadian conservative web forum, has been targeted via the Canada's Human Rights Commission (HRC) over allegations the conservative site promotes "hate speech."

"We have been waiting for six and a half years and the day has finally arrived, somebody is going to try to silence Free Dominion using the Canadian Human Rights Commission," Mark Fourier quipped in posting the letter. "Somebody has likely decided that because they can't defeat some argument presented by someone at Free Dominion they will instead try to silence the whole site. It isn't going to work."

A redacted copy of the letter sent by the HRC has been posted on the Free Dominion website (freedominion.ca) informing the conservative site of the complaint and that it has the option to settle before the investigation proceeds further. (http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=84457)

While the right of citizens to exercise free speech used to be a hallmark of free democracies, Canada's Human Rights Commissions have taken to determining what ideas Canadian citizens may communicate with each other or with whom Canadians may freely associate.

Connie Wilkins of Free Dominion spoke with LifeSiteNews.com about the human rights complaint filed with the HRC by a certain"Ms. Gentes" accusing the site of promoting "hate speech" although the HRC has refused to say what protected groups are offended.

Wilkins told LifeSiteNews.com that the HRC claimed it sent the full complaint via Canada Post on June 9 with signature required. However, Free Dominion had received no word of this complaint until yesterday evening, when they received a second letter from the HRC telling them to respond to the complaint of "Ms. Gentes" by July 18, the very day they were required to respond.

After explaining the situation to an HRC official, Wilkins was told only that Free Dominion was accused of "hate speech" under Sec. 13 of the Human Rights Act and that they would resend the original complaint. While the officer said there were specifics in the complaint, he refused to mention them and said they would be found in the original complaint which they should receive Monday.

"It's frightening," Wilkins said commenting on the way the HRC has used allegations of "hate speech" to shut down the viewpoints of conservatives and Christians, such as Christian printer Scott Brockie and other individuals with smaller resources to defend themselves than Free Dominion. (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/04041604.html)

Wilkins explained that Free Dominion (freedominion.ca) is "an online meeting place for conservatives across the country to get together, strategise, plan, and do everything."

"They prefer it when conservatives are isolated from one another and can't talk and organise" to oppose the leftist agenda, Wilkins continued. One Free Dominion project was helping organise Canadians to vote to abolish abortion as the number one wish for the CBC's Great Canadian Wish Contest done in cooperation with Facebook. (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07070305.html)

"I think the most significant thing about this is how much in the dark we are being kept," said Wilkins. "I mean you would think that if you're being charged with something and there is an allegation against, the first thing that they would do is tell you."

"There have been a lot of people rallying around us already," said Wilkins. "I think that it will be good if people start reporting this and show what the [Human Rights Commissions] do. A lot of Canadians don't realise this. They hear hate crimes laws and think that's a really good thing. They don't understand it's used as a club."

Wilkins said Free Dominion will fight the complaint all the way.

It Doesn't Get Any Simpler Than This.........

A SHOCK JOCK SAID SOMETHING SHOCKING. IN OTHER NEWS, A BUS DRIVER DROVE A BUS.

Category five hysterics blow out Don Imus
By RACHEL MARSDEN

NEW YORK -- A shock jock said something shocking. In other news, a bus driver drove a bus.

America's original shock jock, Don Imus, has been fired from his long running radio show because apparently advertisers thought they were advertising on a smooth jazz program.

In recent Hollywood cases, people who say offensive things get sent to "rehab." But since Imus has already been there, I suppose it would be like sending Donald Duck to Disneyland, or Tom Cruise to the Scientology Centre.

After the NCAA women's basketball championships, he referred to women on the Rutgers team as "nappy headed hos." What followed were category five hysterics by black activists like Al Sharpton, making the media rounds and calling for the first lynching of a white guy in recent memory.

For the uninitiated, Sharpton is a self-appointed expert in all things racial. Biology, biologist. Chemistry, chemist. Linguistics, linguist. Racism...well, you get the drift.

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Kinky & Ann- A Breath Of Fresh Air

COWARDS KICK AWAY ANOTHER PIECE OF AMERICA'S SOUL

HO HO HO, MERRY IMUS!

Local Insight Into Imus

Imus nailed by mob

Radio personality Don Imus broke the law of racism. In other words, as a white man he made a comment about a group of black women that only black men are allowed to make.

Remember This Next Time Goldie & Her Shills Ask For Funding

I am not saying to withhold your donations but at least express your views.......

Censorship at PBS

A film on radical Islam has been quashed by PBS:

"The producer of a tax-financed documentary on Islamic extremism claims his film has been dropped for political reasons from a television series that airs next week on more than 300 PBS stations nationwide.

Key portions of the documentary focus on Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser of Phoenix and his American Islamic Forum for Democracy, a non-profit organization of Muslim Americans who advocate patriotism, constitutional democracy and a separation of church and state.....

Burke wrote that his documentary depicts the plight of moderate Muslims who are silenced by Islamic extremists, adding, "Now it appears to be PBS and CPB who are silencing them."

Source

Ann Speaks Out On Imus, Et Al

HO HO HO, MERRY IMUS!
by Ann Coulter
April 11, 2007

The only person happier than Larry Birkhead about the big announcement that he is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby is Don Imus. By the way, what's the word for a woman who gives birth to a child of uncertain paternity?

English speakers in America need a rule book to tell us what people can say what words when, and under which set of circumstances. The rule book will be longer than the Patriot Act and will require weekly updates as new words and circumstances are added. Perhaps a Nasdaq-style ticker would be more efficient.

Depending on which TV show you tune into, what Imus said was wrong because: (1) His show goes out on FCC-regulated airwaves; (2) he regularly interviews people like Sens. John Kerry, John McCain and Joe Biden; (3) he spoke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner a few years ago; or (4) he's not black.

Perhaps sensing that such constantly scrolling rules have a whiff of fascism about them, the scowling Miss Grundys of the world think they have hit on the perfect omnibus rule. They instruct us to "be nice." (There's a word for the grim Miss Grundys, but apparently I'm not allowed to use it. Sarah Silverman is. This will be all in the rule book.)

The requirement to always "be nice" would be the end of Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle, two of the funniest comedians in America. Let me rephrase that: It would be the end of all humor. Even Bob Hope cruelly implied that Democrats didn't support the troops when he joked to the troops in Vietnam: "The country is behind you 50 percent."

At least we'll still be able to watch the "Charlie Rose" show! Actually, for all anyone knows, Rose is calling women "nappy-headed hos" on TV every night since no one has ever seen his show.

In addition to ending all humor, we'll lose all political debate. For Americans over 4 years old, people in the public sphere are engaged in serious arguments — over abortion, illegal immigration, how much money the government takes from you, and the pre-eminent battle of our time against Islamic fascists. The "be nice" admonition is the sort of thing stupid girls say when they can't think of anything substantive to say.

I, for one, promise to implement the "be nice" policy just as soon as the other side surrenders.

Say, does anyone remember if Winston Churchill was "nice" in his public pronouncements about Hitler? Was he even nice to his fellow countrymen with whom he disagreed?

No, I don't think he was! This is what Winston Churchill said about the Labor Party's Ramsay MacDonald:

"I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder.' My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye, and I have waited 50 years to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."

And guess what public figure was constantly accused of making "outrageous" remarks, trading in "insults, trashings and character assassinations"? Of what public figure was it asked: "Who can examine this record of insults and say that here is a man of class?"

That's right: Ronald Reagan. Those particular quotes are from Washington Post columnists Richard Cohen and Colman McCarthy.

Was Reagan "nice" to the Soviets? They certainly didn't think so. The Soviets constantly denounced Reagan as "rude," and our dear friends at the BBC upbraided Reagan for his "rude attacks" on Fidel Castro, Nicaragua and the Soviet Union. Post columnist McCarthy indignantly charged that Reagan had "put down an entire nation — the Soviet Union — by calling it 'the focus of evil in the nuclear world.'"

Oh dear! Reagan wasn't "nice." No wonder he never accomplished anything.

One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of "niceness": As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: "What would Reagan do?"

People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.

The reason people don't like what Imus said was because the women on the Rutgers basketball team aren't engaged in public discourse. They're not public figures, they don't have a forum, they aren't trying to influence public policy.

They play basketball — quite well, apparently — and did nothing to bring on an attack on their looks or character. It's not the words Imus used: It would be just as bad if he had simply said the Rutgers women were ugly and loose.

People claim to object to the words alone, but that's because everyone is trying to fit this incident into a PC worldview. It's like girls who say, "It's not that you cheated on me; it's that you lied about it." No — it's that you cheated.

If Imus had called me a "towheaded ho" or Al Sharpton a "nappy-headed ho," it would be what's known as "funny." (And if he called Anna Nicole Smith a "flaxen-headed ho," it would be "absolutely accurate.") But he attacked the looks and morals of utterly innocent women, who had done nothing to inject themselves into public debate.

Imus should apologize to the Rutgers women — and those women alone — send them flowers, and stop kissing Al Sharpton's ring.

This wasn't an insult to all mankind, and certainly not an insult to Al Sharpton. Now, if Imus had called the basketball players "fat, race-baiting black men with clownish hairstyles," well, then perhaps Sharpton would be owed an apology.

COPYRIGHT 2007 ANN COULTER

They Caved Into Iran So This Isn't Surprising

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Why Not Pull The Plug And Pipe In Al Jazeera?

Britain's decay continues;

Private Johnson Beharry's courage in rescuing an ambushed foot patrol then, in a second act, saving his vehicle's crew despite his own terrible injuries earned him a Victoria Cross.

For the BBC, however, his story is "too positive" about the conflict.

The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain's youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq.

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The Beeb can't find a bad spin for bravery
Via LGF:

The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain's youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq.


Would those be the same members of the audience who would have rioted has Britain used it's dusty spine to free its sailors instead of humbly accepting them as a "gift"? Would those be the same members of the audience who protest holding signs that say "Behead those who insult Islam"? Because I assure you, it would not be the members of the audience whose fathers and grandfathers fought for Her Majesty themselves. It would not be the average middle-classman who understands that the freedoms they enjoy did not just spring up from a wild mushroom or something.

"The BBC has behaved in a cowardly fashion by pulling the plug on the project altogether," said a source close to the project. "It began to have second thoughts last year as the war in Iraq deteriorated. It felt it couldn't show anything with a degree of positivity about the conflict.

"It needed to tell stories about Iraq which reflected the fact that some members of the audience didn't approve of what was going on. Obviously a story about Johnson Beharry could never do that. You couldn't have a scene where he suddenly turned around and denounced the war because he just wouldn't do that.

"The film is now on hold and it will only make it to the screen if another broadcaster picks it up."


Here's hoping a more patriotic station backs it. The so-called "British" Broadcasting Corporation has no room for the good news out of Iraq. Only the bad.

Labels: Europe, Iraq, Main Stream Media, Military, War on Terror

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