Censorship?!

>I can't walk down a dark street without
>having real and justifiable fear.

You work in theatre, don't you? I can tell. This is a wonderfully dramatic image. But tell me something.... do you _really_ walk down dark streets alone? Tell me that in this day and age, you're that stupid? Go on, tell me.

>It's about single instances of harm directly
>attributable to material which could and
>should have been made unavailable.

Like the pro-Jewish literature that was burnt by the Nazis to protect the unwashed masses from the dangerous idea that Jews were productive and valuable members of German society?

Or the words of the high-profile pariahs of the 1950's, twisted and/or destroyed by Senator Jospeh McCarthy for fear that they would pollute the minds of the young and impressionable?

Do you see what well-intentioned path is being paved here, Leah?

>If the strong and high minded have to have their
>ideologies offended to protect the weak so be it.

What if Grant were to take your views off this board, so as to protect the frail minds of those who might be twisted by your rhetoric?

I'm reminded of the quote attributed to the Rev. Martin NiemÁ¶ller, about his experience during WWII: "In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me."

>But lets make this about theatre; how far is too far,
>what should we not able to view on stage?

Is it academic at this point to say "anything and everything"?


respectfully,
David Meadows.