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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 07:00:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 22 07:00:22 1986
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In article <794@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP writes:
>				............... my experiences dealing
>with "democratic socialists" here in California leads to me believe that
>their support of free speech is purely pragmatic.  Consider the efforts
>of the various feminist groups in the U.S. to restrict pornography -- and
>I understand that a Labour M.P. recently attempted to get Parliament 
>to restrict papers like the _Sun_ because of their childish fascination
>with bare breasts.

The so-called restriction on a "newspaper" like the Sun was to stop the
pathetic bare breasted Page-3 pinups. Perhaps if Mr Cramer read the Sun -
maybe that's where he gets his political analyses from - he would see how
obnoxious any decent human being would find these pictures. I can't see how
banning them could be considered an example of nasty socialist censorship.
The Sun would still be free to continue with its rather offensive, jingoistic,
right-wing stand. [The worst example was a 900-point headline "Gotcha!" above
a picture of the sinking Argentinian cruiser during the Falklands war.]

In any event, the bill was talked out of time in Parlaiment and has been
dropped.

		Jim