FACT - Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

[FACT comments: It's really not necessary to create high anxiety in an attempt to be politically-correct. Most sensible people realise good intentions.]

Three Pigs’ Bacon Saved
Sky News: March 16, 2007

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1256161,00.html

But Islamic leaders condemned the move as misguided and said such decisions were turning Muslims into ‘misfits’ of society.The Three Little Pigs have been reinstated in a school play after originally being changed to puppies for fear of offending Muslim families…Roald Dahl’s version of Little Red Riding Hood, which features the pigs, was being put on by children in West Yorkshire…The organisers of the show decided it was politically correct to replace hogs with hounds…They feared the Three Little Pigs could offend Muslim children taking part, or their parents…”There’s an issue about the eating of pork, which is forbidden, but there is no prohibition about reading stories about pigs.”

The History of Banned and Censored Cartoons

http://banned-cartoons.com/

Between 1930 and 1950, animators at Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, MGM, Merrie Melodies, Looney Tunes, R.K.O., and many other independent studios, produced thousands of cartoons containing racial stereotypes and references to alcohol, adultery, female anatomy, cross-dressing, gambling, marijuana, pornography, sexual situations, smoking, and suicides (i.e. a frustrated Bugs Bunny blows himself up)…This was during what is now known as the golden age of animation, and until the mid 1960s, cartoons were screened before all feature films. Later, these same cartoons would cycle endlessly for decades on broadcast TV or cable syndication. To modern audiences, many of these cartoons are quite shocking and graphically illustrate how pervasive and institutionalized racism was in our culture just a short time ago…Ownership of Warner Bros. cartoons passed to United Artists in 1968 and they created a “Censored 11″ list of cartoons they refused to air or make available for purchase on any media.

[FACT comments: We can see where this is taking us! Fox in the henhouse!]

Drug Prosecutor to Lead Pardons Office
Associated Press: April 29, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/washington/29brfs-DRUGPROSECUT_BRF.html?ref=todayspaper

A top drug prosecutor has been named to lead the Justice Department office that recommends presidential pardons. Mr. Rodgers, chief of the department’s Drug Intelligence Unit and a former Marine Corps lawyer, will fill a post vacated by Roger Adams, who had been accused of racism and mismanagement. The pardon attorney’s office reviews more than 1,000 applications for clemency each year. It had an estimated backlog of 3,055 applications as of Oct. 1, up from 2,255 a year earlier.

[FACT comments: This is why defamation laws are so dangerous--they are used by the powerful against those without.]

Law Professor Accuses Students of Defamation
By LYNNLEY BROWNING
The New York Times: May 1, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/us/01legal.html?ref=todayspaper

At the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, an award-winning law professor has sued two of his students, alleging that they defamed him by unfairly describing him on campus as a racist…In a constitutional law class in 2005, he displayed what some of his black law students described to university officials as a belittling satirical article from The Onion on Rosa Parks…Professor Peltz last month filed a civil lawsuit against two of the law students, Valerie D. Nation and Chrishuana L. Clark, both third-year students. The lawsuit also names as defendants Eric S. Buchanan, who is a lawyer for the W. Harold Flowers Law Society in Little Rock, an association of black lawyers in Arkansas; the society itself; and the local chapter of the Black Law Students Association…The complaint alleges defamation of character and seeks unspecified monetary and punitive damages.