I have a personal problem with Giuliani so
vociferously appointing himself the morals police and
then playing out his own little melodrama at the
mayor's home for the world to witness.

I have a problem with the thought that one couldn't
put suggested donation at the entrance.  If you don't
suggest, you may never get the fees to sustain the
museum.

I have a problem, as do you, with the censorship of
art and what I perceive really as more a violation of
First Amendment.

But then I've been clear heretofore that I don't
approve of Rudy's antics, and I've gotten spanked off
list once or twice or fifty times by those who think
he's right in what he's doing.

I think of his antics as being just as hypocritical as
a certain president going to teach the rest of the
nation's children moral values while the Secret
Service bails his children out of the clink (God bless
their cute little souls).

Will you guys come visit me in list jail when I'm
spanked for saying just how awful I think those
situations really are?  If I smoked, I'd ask you to
bring me list jail cigarettes and chocolate, LOL


--- Lori Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Indigo,
> I saw the Times at Starbuck's this AM and bought it
> just for this article.
> I read it while waiting for the dentist.  Infuriated
> is an understatement.
>
> First of all, it sounds a lot like censorship:
>
> "But the subcommittee of about a dozen members was
> formed to write
> the standards meant to address, as the mayor said
> last spring,
> 'whether or not there should be a different
> assessment made when
> public dollars are being used than when private
> dollars are being
> used' in city museums."
>
> Secondly, they take what is supposed to be a mandate
> for multi-culturalism
> and turn it around 180 degrees and use it to further
> the right-wing
> conservative judeo-christian platform:
>
> "Mr. Bergman, who added that he did not think that
> the exhibition at the
> Brooklyn Museum, 'Sensation', would have been
> displayed under the national
> association's suggested code of ethics. He is
> suggesting that city museums
> accept some version of those guidelines, which
> include
> promotion of programs that 'respect pluralistic
> values, traditions
> and concerns,' and that 'promote the public good
> rather than
> individual financial gain,'..."
>
> Duh, if an institution fears that it will loose
> funding (public or
> otherwise), then it will no longer make decisions
> that promote public good
> rather than ones which have financial "gain" (read:
> survival) as a primary
> motivation.  How phenominally STUPID can Guiliani
> be?
>
> Lori Allen,
> graduate Student, UMSL
>
>

=====
Indigo Nights
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