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Watchmen Censored

March 6th, 2009 by cocoy

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Given the dissenting opinion on the awesomeness of Watchmen on Warlach’s World and a positive review by  Juned for the Watchmen movie is up. Does this mean that when the Philippines’ Movie, Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) cuts Watchmen that’s a crime?

So I ask, would it ever come to this:

When in the course of Human Events it becomes necessary for One People to seek Art, Culture, Literature, Science and Rational Discourse as it was meant to be seen by the Powers of the Earth, as the Laws of Nature and God entitle them a decent, Open and Free Society that they declare the causes which impel them to Oppose:

We hold these Truths to be Self-Evident that all Humans are endowed by their Creator with unalienable Rights: Life, Liberty, Reason, Common Sense, [and] Happiness, and Deism. That to secure these rights, Humans are Free to resolve this grievance through Creative Destruction; That whenever any Form of Censorship becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, to usurp it through the Network, laying the Foundation of Creative Destruction on such Principles and Rights, and organizing encrypted, distributed ad hoc Peers.

Such has been the patient Sufferance of People. The history of Censorship is a History of Repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object, the Establishment of Censorship of Ideas, and of Tyrannical Authority, as opposed to an Era of Rational Discourse and Personal Judgement, of Republicanism, of Liberalism, of Naturalism, of Scientific Method and Modernity.

So say we all: in General Congress, Assembled, and by the Authority of good People of these Interwebs, solemnly Publish and Declare that we shall have our Content, unblemished, uncensored and for the support of this Declaration, we mutually pledge to each other, our Peer Networks and our sacred Clients.

What say you?

oh, by-the-way, image is from here via @sofimi on plurk.


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