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reddread

(6,896 posts)
Wed May 20, 2015, 08:15 AM May 2015

Man oh man, satire is serious business

Maybe we should rein in these blasphmous, deceptive provocateurs of thought.
The rest of the world seems to have the jump on us, and it may be time we
put a stop to shit stirring before another Hebdo massacre occurs.
At least Jon Stewart had the sense to step down before somebody got hurt,
but what about the next wiseacre?

http://moldovanpolitics.com/category/moldova/political-satire/

the French need to learn this lesson as well-

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/why-satire-holy-french-islam-2015113124829607350.html

at least the Saudi's know how to handle upstarts

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jan/12/laughing-in-face-of-danger-satire-in-muslim-world

the cradle of democracy, Egypt has their act together as well

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/68050/Egypt/Politics-/BREAKING-Egypt-top-prosecutor-orders-arrest-of-pol.aspx

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/0403/When-Egypt-s-satirists-poke-fun-public-prosecutor-hits-back-video

Strong leadership from the great state of Wisconsin serves as the best example for how trouble makers should never cross the line

http://www.wisbar.org/newspublications/wisconsinlawyer/pages/article.aspx?Volume=85&Issue=5&ArticleID=2427

Turkey is working hard to rehabilitate their image, and presumably to eliminate the old school insult/pejorative "turkey!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/world/europe/turkish-leader-traces-a-new-internal-threat-the-way-hes-drawn.html?_r=0

Singapore has taken a bold step forward, beyond caning tourists and shutting down the utter pornography of satire

http://asiancorrespondent.com/132826/court-verdict-pornography-law-political-satire-amos-yee/

New Zealand has a handle on their cultural infidels as well

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6266312/new-zealand-darren-watson-political-satire-banned

here in the home of the brave, we have ways of dealing with this sort of filth

http://observer.com/2015/01/dont-believe-what-the-government-says-about-barrett-brown/


These terrorists need to be smoked out.
Isn't is enough we have strong rightfully funny broadcasters like Rush Limbaugh to keep us busy?

Did you hear what Rush said?

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Man oh man, satire is serious business (Original Post) reddread May 2015 OP
unless your name's Dieudonne MisterP May 2015 #1
Barrett Brown is a "satirist?" Blue_Tires May 2015 #2
Brown is no more and no less a satirist than LanternWaste May 2015 #3
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
3. Brown is no more and no less a satirist than
Wed May 20, 2015, 05:14 PM
May 2015

Brown is no more and no less a satirist than a college frat member running into a minority neighborhood and yelling racial epithets. But... free speech and all that.

A new one, indeed.

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