From: Bill Roh (billroh@churchofvirus.com)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 13:48:45 MST
Ben, your statement "Anti-Drug Laws Support Terrorists"
Is exactly what I thought, to the letter, when I first saw these adds. I was
wondering how a person would get those views aired - but decided that one could
not get such views aired. I do not think that there is a single broadcasting
medium, with any viewership worth mentioning, that would carry such an
advertisement. Which led me to the whole notion of "What" type of adds could not
get aired. I decided that any add that was anti-christian would not be permitted
- including adds for a non religious group. For instance, one could probably get
away with "Come to our social gathering" but not with "We are having an atheist
gathering" or worse "Want an alternative to Christianity? Call the Church of
Virus".
I never really thought about it too much, but it is obvious that freedom of
speech does NOT include pay for advertising services and we would get
blackballed if we ever tried to advertise in such a medium.
What a bummer
Bill Roh
ben wrote:
> What I find sickening yet oddly humourous about the whole thing is that
> those problems would go away as soon as it was legalized, (which is much
> easier to do than to entirely stamp out recreational drug use) but you don't
> see them promoting that to Joe Public as a possible solution.
>
> Maybe that should be the new slogan of the decriminalization camps -
> "Anti-Drug Laws Support Terrorists"
>
> -ben
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michelle" <michelle@barrymenasherealtors.com>
> To: <virus@lucifer.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: virus: Cannabinoid receptors and munchies : reprise
>
> Anyone else here seen the newest ad campaign against "drugs"? Where kids
> are shown intermingling phrases like "I like to get high with my friends" or
> "I smoke a bit of weed" with phrases like "I help fund terrorists" and "I
> help bombers get fake passports", ending with "It's my body".
>
> It's kind of scary in that it's partially true - but you could say the same
> about paying the power bill, for example. Or taxes. Nobody's doing
> commercials about that. I'm wondering just how well this meme will take -
> any predictions? Are even pot smokers to become villainous pariahs, seen as
> terrorist-enablers?
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