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Monday, January 10, 2005 |
Guardian: "Guards were last night protecting the homes of two senior BBC executives as complaints from Christian groups at Saturday's showing of Jerry Springer - The Opera escalated into threats of violence.
The corporation employed a private security firm, Rubicon International, to safeguard the homes of the BBC2 controller, Roly Keating, and the director of television, Jana Bennett.
The pair were deluged with 'threatening' and 'abusive' phone calls; about 50,000 prior complaints about screening the musical were received by the corporation."
We live in a strange world, don't we? Words seem to be more dangerous than deeds.
An opera that is 'showing the amoral liberalism of something like the Jerry Springer Show and putting it to its ultimate conclusion and showing it up in brilliant satirical fashion' has led to abuse from 'Christian' groups.
In Big Brother Land "a protester has been charged with violating a city's obscene language ordinance for protesting with a sign reading, 'This war is Bushit...'"
If words are obscene, then war is the ultimate obscenity.
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