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From: artm@phred.UUCP (Art Marriott)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,net.legal
Subject: Re: Violence, Sex, Meese commission: Cobra
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 15:00:36 EDT
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In article <1245@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>Here's an interesting news item which the Meese Commission would
>undoubtedly wish to ignore:
>
>"The Sylvester Stallone movie, 'Cobra', is too violent for Brazilian
> audiences.....
>    Controversy arose when an audience in the northeastern city of
> Recife destroyed seats in a theater after viewing 'Cobra' and when
> a retired policeman in the northeastern city of Salvador fired a
> gun after seeing the picture, wounding three people.
> ...

No, they'd simply use it as another example of exposure of **something**
causing unacceptable behavior and argue that one must decuce from this that
viewing of erotica would lead to **whatever**.

Please, no flames about generalizations.  I'm trying to avoid overuse of
net bandwidth.

Neither my associates nor my employers necessarily know of nor share my
opinions, but it sure would be nice....

                                              Art Marriott
                                              tikal!phred!artm