Lieberman: Entertainment Must Police Itself or Else By Kalpana Srinivasan Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Joe Lieberman decried a "culture of carnage" surrounding Americas young people and told a Senate committee Wednesday that the government should stop the marketing of violent movies, music and video games to children if the industry fails to police itself. <snip> http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGI11ED63DC.html
Yep - all those commercials for "Be All You Can Be, Join The Army" and "Join The Navy, See The World, Meet Interesting People and Kill Them", and "Army Reserve - Spend Saturdays Keeping In Practice as a Trained Killer" and all the war movies the Pentagon helps get made, and "COPS" tv shows, and "The Drug War - Fix Moral and Health Problems By Declaring War" and its related "Job Training and Practical Entrepreneurism For Inner-City Youth" program, both of which teach kids that violence is a good way to relate to your neighbor - in some cities, the training extends to franchising opportunities, starting your own "Young Crips" neighborhood chapter. There's also the "Starve Young Children By Economic Blockade" programs for ridding the world of Hitler-of-the-year candidates that's worked so well, and the "Be Afraid - Make More Anthrax Vaccine Before Terrorists Use It" gigs. The government really *should* stop marketing those violent programs. Themselves. Before they mess with the (really large) motes in the movie businesses' eyes. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639