The distressing Mr. Flynt

[Henry M]

It's important to remember that Lenny Bruce was using language that a 
lot of other comedians were using, people like Red Fox and others. 
Lenny was busted, using obscenity laws, for the socio-political 
content of his speech. Not only am I in extremely in favor of free 
speech for the sake of free speech, but the application of laws 
against individual rights, including sex, drugs, and rock & roll, are 
inconsistently applied, and so become a tool for other forms of 
repression.

On 23 Jan 97 at 10:26, Greg Montalbano wrote:

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> This IS the point.  
> Anybody here old enough to remember Lenny Bruce?  --his continuing
> battles against an establishment that used obscenity "laws" (which
> were frequently, in fact, no more than conventions) to suppress
> language that they found "offensive" -- and the reluctance that
> someone else mentioned on the part of elected officials to come out
> in favor of "smut", which acts to encourage the Mrs Grundys.

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