Comments on: Motion Picture Association censors out US torture http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/ Thoughts by Stephen Soldz on war, peace, politics, psychoanalysis, and research methods Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:11:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: James B http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135845 James B Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:59:16 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135845 It's only interpreted as 'torture' when it threatens to reveal the acts of men who recieve paychecks made up of United States citizen's taxpayer dollars. Any other time, especially if they are Muslim or increasingly 'domestic terrorists', it is perfectly acceptable and quite the rage in motion picture plotlines. 'Bending the minds and wills of the weaker races' is how they percieve their jobs. Since most people are hopelessly uneducated as to the situation one has to wonder if there will ever be an end to it. It’s only interpreted as ‘torture’ when it threatens to reveal the acts of men who recieve paychecks made up of United States citizen’s taxpayer dollars. Any other time, especially if they are Muslim or increasingly ‘domestic terrorists’, it is perfectly acceptable and quite the rage in motion picture plotlines.

‘Bending the minds and wills of the weaker races’ is how they percieve their jobs. Since most people are hopelessly uneducated as to the situation one has to wonder if there will ever be an end to it.

]]> By: RSW http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135826 RSW Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:55:27 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135826 The motion picture industry has been in the business of propaganda and mind control since at least WW2 and probably before. Paricularly Disney, though it's probably across the board. This is no surprise. Hollywood needs to be taken for what it is - the information arm of the military industrial complex and all its ramifications. The motion picture industry has been in the business of propaganda and mind control since at least WW2 and probably before. Paricularly Disney, though it’s probably across the board.

This is no surprise.

Hollywood needs to be taken for what it is – the information arm of the military industrial complex and all its ramifications.

]]> By: Bigboy http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135824 Bigboy Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:44:23 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135824 For an interesting chapter on US prisoners and torture read online or download for free from page 608 www.amoralamerica.info For an interesting chapter on US prisoners and torture read online or download for free from page 608
http://www.amoralamerica.info

]]> By: Americans For Change http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135823 Americans For Change Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:43:50 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135823 I live in New York City, where you can't go three feet without seeing an enormous four foot by four foot poster with movie ads. I want to point out that, although it seems to be "not suitable for children" to see an image which reflects important contemporary political events, it is apparently alright for them to show (as was one ad for SAW IV) a woman encased in leather dominatrix gear tied to a chair with a decapitated pig's head stuffed onto her head. Fuck the MPAA. I live in New York City, where you can’t go three feet without seeing an enormous four foot by four foot poster with movie ads. I want to point out that, although it seems to be “not suitable for children” to see an image which reflects important contemporary political events, it is apparently alright for them to show (as was one ad for SAW IV) a woman encased in leather dominatrix gear tied to a chair with a decapitated pig’s head stuffed onto her head. Fuck the MPAA.

]]> By: JEff Satin http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135822 JEff Satin Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:41:31 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135822 Well, on THAT note, if ANYONE other than Ron Paul wins the white house, I am off to get a passport, and leaving this country for GOOD, and I expect I am NOT going to be alone in my decision, I believe people are going to hit the exits in DROVES!!! This place is no better than the very communists we supposedly dislike... THEN who are the power elite going to get to do all the WORK??? They sure as hell aren't going to do any THEMSELVES! Well, on THAT note, if ANYONE other than Ron Paul wins the white house, I am off to get a passport, and leaving this country for GOOD, and I expect I am NOT going to be alone in my decision, I believe people are going to hit the exits in DROVES!!!
This place is no better than the very communists we supposedly dislike…
THEN who are the power elite going to get to do all the WORK???
They sure as hell aren’t going to do any THEMSELVES!

]]> By: John B http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135818 John B Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:17:24 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135818 If the behavior is going to be seen by all ages then maybe the behavior and not the documentary should be censured. If we can't be honest in our documentary that children may see, maybe the behavior of torture should be addressed more adequitly, not the integraty of the documentary censured. If the behavior is going to be seen by all ages then maybe the behavior and not the documentary should be censured.

If we can’t be honest in our documentary that children may see, maybe the behavior of torture should be addressed more adequitly, not the integraty of the documentary censured.

]]> By: Abbybwood http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135812 Abbybwood Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:40:42 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135812 According to what I've been reading and watching on video lately it seems it's more the "torturers" who are hooded...not the person being tortured. Check out Amy Goodman's video from her "Democracy Now!" program (on Crooksandliars.com), in which she interviews a man who was renditioned and tortured. This video should be mandatory viewing by every American citizen. Your tax dollars at work. I wept the whole time I was watching it and for several minutes after. I feel like I'm living in a surrealistic nightmare. According to what I’ve been reading and watching on video lately it seems it’s more the “torturers” who are hooded…not the person being tortured.

Check out Amy Goodman’s video from her “Democracy Now!” program (on Crooksandliars.com), in which she interviews a man who was renditioned and tortured.

This video should be mandatory viewing by every American citizen. Your tax dollars at work. I wept the whole time I was watching it and for several minutes after.

I feel like I’m living in a surrealistic nightmare.

]]> By: Red Star http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135785 Red Star Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:23:31 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135785 Would you really expect any different? Like it or not the United States is now a Tyranny - it became so when it openly admitted to detentions without trial and torture. Censorship is what tyrannies DO. It is essential for them to survive. Would you really expect any different? Like it or not the United States is now a Tyranny – it became so when it openly admitted to detentions without trial and torture. Censorship is what tyrannies DO. It is essential for them to survive.

]]> By: Robert Egan http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135765 Robert Egan Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:55:06 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135765 "We don't need no stinking Constitution:!! It's censorship again just like not being allowed to show the coffins of our returning dead! The American public must get the truth from other sources than the Mega-buck conglomerate media that this bunch of traitors in power are about to allow to take over the last vestiges of independence!! “We don’t need no stinking Constitution:!!

It’s censorship again just like not being allowed to show the coffins of our returning dead!

The American public must get the truth from other sources than the
Mega-buck conglomerate media that this bunch of traitors in power are about to allow to take over the last vestiges of independence!!

]]> By: Tenzing http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/comment-page-1/#comment-135760 Tenzing Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:23:27 +0000 http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/12/19/motion-picture-association-censors-out-us-torture/#comment-135760 It seems that contrary to rumor, McCarthyism isn't dead in Hollywood after all. It has a stronghold in the MPAA. For shame. It seems that contrary to rumor, McCarthyism isn’t dead in Hollywood after all. It has a stronghold in the MPAA. For shame.

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