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NOT TRUE Tammy Jo. This is what annoys me so much. This is the bullshet trotted out to show 'PC gone mad'.

The idiots tried it;-THAT/THEY is/are PC, but they failed! It was ridiculed,- as it should be and never occurred.

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Pelican, good points. I cannot agree with your last line though. Restrictions have been threatened on OLO very recently. A complete irony, because they are not directed at some of the most inflammatory posts about Indigenous Australians;- these have been defended. So where Pelican have that been directed; and what has that to do with FoS??

( The auto censor certainly doesn't allow FoS! It objected to one question mark too many. Boy! Am I in trouble!)

Ginx, I am fairly new to OLO and not aware of any restrictions other than when I tried to put an extra quotation mark the system came up with a warning. I only had two quotation marks so it may have been a glitch. I have no idea of the politcis of OLO or the players (although learning quickly methinks :)) and don't much care I will just state an opinion and hopefully back it up with the reasons why.

I think I may have missed your message, I was talking big picture stuff and not thinking about OLO in this context.

Your comment Ginx:
"So where Pelican have that been directed; and what has that to do with FoS??"

I don't understand what you are asking - I think we may be on different tracks. I am also not sure what you mean about "restrictions threatened" - was there a particular incident?

Loved the joke Foxy. Vanilla, I keep things vague to protect the innocent. If you wish to research things, look at the independant radio station that played muslim teachings by the cleric in the punchbowl area. The cleric was even mentioned by a Christian minister who used to be in the liverpool area and had a television show (albeit briefly).

I was informed this cleric was even under careful scrutiny by government agencies for a certain time. I do not know if this is still the case. Probably not considering it happened sometime around 2003. The exact year eludes me, I'm getting old and my memory is fading over issues that I consider to be of little importance to me.

The school was around the same area and no, the media did not get hold of the information because it was suppressesed. Payments were made and people drifted off quietly into the night. Freedom of speech and information appears to be a myth. Besides, it wouldn't have made good news. After all, we can't go offending people now can we?

Vanilla: Oh dear- I am sorry for passing on misinformation. Santa Clause was encouraged to say Ha! Ha! Ha! rather than Ho! Ho! Ho! Enclosed links to news sites that support my claim. Honestly, I could not have even have tried to make that up!

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22761386-2,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311797,00.html

Ginx: Please do not shout and jump down my throat for demonstrating something that is true. Vanilla wanted an example and I gave one. Whether the intention of the directive to Santa failed or not is really not the point- the point is that it even occurred in the first place as a result of PC gone crazy.

Dickie,
My comments to David were NOT meant as a linch mob attack on oh him at all.
David is among our list of a few good men. David is without any doubt someone with more moral fiber than many on this forum IMOP.

He’s not a hypocrite unless of course you include him in general attitude of most church people and Church Leaders with their obtuse arrogant attitude towards their responsibility of Animal Welfare.
Err Sorry David got side tracked. Now lets take a closer look at this man David Boaz shall we all.
Its funny you mention you don’t like a linch mob mentality Dicke because David is coming under the heading a Few Good Men but In this case it was one good man speaking up about that very thing.
David and one or two soul others were the only ones to address the linch mentality when Robert opened the car park to force pale to make everybody use their real names. David was the only one to say Hey fair go guys you are cowards attacking a good group in bogey names.
I didn’t see you speaking out about the unfairness of this dickie despite the fact you know we like yourself work hard to help animals?
Only today I see you commenting to not use real names.

If people Don’t have the moral fiber to support their comments with real names it doesn’t say much. Some people are very dishonest while working for organizations yet denying it. – Not So with David.

David Boaz is worth helping in his cause but we just want him to have full knowledge to debate so people can’t brand him as something he isn’t.
He one a few good men we often talk about. He humor love hope and faith but an enough to speak out about an injustice.
WE just get upset when he doesn’t listen and pops the bible up in our faces all the
And we were honest enough to say so.

Of course after saying that he’s free to do as he wishes.

Passive:

Payments were made? people drifted off quietly into the night?

This is a school banning christmas (allegedly) not the Russian KGB. I can believe that perhaps it missed the attention of the media, but the notion of a conspiracy is a bit far fetched.
As for: "Besides, it wouldn't have made good news. After all, we can't go offending people now can we?"

This is precisely the attitude I think this thread was about discussing.
There appears to be a perception out there that it's this pervasive PC influence that stops things like this from being discussed openly.

Quite frankly, I don't believe that for a second. Most journalists with this story would start a media circus. 'Offending people' be damned.

I think the reason why this PC influence is cited, is because when people have views on a subject that most people reject, they prefer to cite some kind of out of control 'PC' agenda, then admit that most people just find their views pretty ugly.

I'm not having a go at you on this one Passive, I don't know what your views are - but this attitude that things just don't get a guernsey in the media because it's not 'PC' ignores the fact that the media print whatever people will read.
Okay, they may sometimes not print something, but only in extreme circumstances, and if the media back away from printing some controversial story that only appeals to either the lowest common denominator, or bigoted sections of society, then well, that's a damn good thing. They should be commended.

I suspect however, that people who are bigoted or prejudiced against someone or something, prefer to blame things on a PC agenda when their views are exposed for what they are and rejected (passive, I'm not saying you're bigoted, I'm just saying that bigoted people would be happy to blame PC things as well).

Look - at the end of the day, overly PC things do happen. I'm not denying that. But I think it's more commonly used as a smokescreen to evade legitimate criticism.