[JJ Letters] Censorship or anarchy?

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September 17, 1993

Fiore Mastracci spews forth the same old pietistic put-down of people that his kind disagrees with (Feedback, Sept. 10). This time, the target is protester Colleen Cooper of Clairton, who objects to “NYPD Blue” being shown in prime time on WTAE-TV, “without even seeing it,” as he sneers so self-righteously.

He further states without fear of contradiction from his liberal sycophants that “censorship in any form is intolerable.” I disagree. Unrestrained liberty is anarchy. The government licenses pharmacists and doctors in order to limit and control the supply of poisonous drugs available to the general population. Yet when someone dares to suggest that we limit and control the supply of unmitigated filth that poisons our children’s minds, some liberal lunatic screams “Censorship!”

I have never seen a film of a little girl being sodomized, or a man being disemboweled or burned alive, or a woman being gang-raped and murdered — but I definitely want to forbid any such film from being shown on prime-time TV to my kids. And I say that “without even seeing’ such films. Mastracci’s “anything goes” libertinism would put even “snuff films” right up there with the Saturday morning cartoons.

An exaggeration? Then take Rhett Butler’s innocent 1939 “I don’t give a damn” in “Gone With the Wind,” and compare it with the totally unbelievable foul-mouthed garbage on soundtracks coming out of Hollywood in 1993.

Mastracci says that he can tell from her photo that Colleen Cooper is not the kind of person he wants dictating his ethics. Well, I can assure you that I don’t want the likes of Fiore Mastracci dictating my ethics.

And I haven’t even seen him.

JACK O’NEIL
Sewickley


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