Censorship...I really don't get it...

G'day,

I read an article in "The Age" today that The Human Centipede 2 has been banned in Australia. Apparently no person involved in the procedure to ban that movie has ever watched it. Well, I have not watched it and I probably never will, not because it has been banned here, which is kind of a joke, as if you want to see it all you have to do is download it, but because of what I read about this movie doesn't sound not too appealing to me.

Anyway, that is not the point. I am trying to understand what the people who were involved in the banning of this movie think they are doing and for whom they are doing it. OK, we have a movie here that has a lot of graphic violence , torture, rape and other non-pleasant things but to be fair it was originally rated for adults only. And that's the crux of the whole thing. I get the whole rating-movies-for-children and I think it's a good idea to not show "Dawn of the Dead" to a 10-year-old. But if a society agrees on the concept of "legal age" and adulthood, then you have to let people (of legal age) watch whatever they want (unless the stuff they want to watch is actually footage of a real crime like child porn and such).

I am trying to understand the motives of the people involved in banning a movie that is only of interest to a group of horror film enthusiasts that is not too big in numbers. "Saving the children" can't be used as an argument for once as the ban only affects movies and possible DVD sales, so it's fairly easy to keep the little ones save. So what is it then? If you take a look a this press release there is the answer: the christian right wing was the driving force behind it.

OK, well, that ends my search for an answer. The same people who are complaining that Islam is trying to take over the world are doing the very same, trying to run my fucking life and telling me which movies I can't watch. And if you deal with those kind of people all arguments boil down to "because it's God's will". And they don't listen to the counter-argument "how can you know that there is a God and even if there is a God, how do YOU know what he/she/it wants?".

I have no problem with people believing what the fuck they want but the moment people try to impose their beliefs on the whole of society I get a bit annoyed. And the funny thing is that if you'd ask FamilyVoice on their opinion on implementing the Sharia to run a country they would condemn it...and I'm sure that they are unable to see the irony in this statement...

Well, I can only re-propose my plan to vacate Africa, ship all the religious people there and relocate the Africans into the house now free in other countries and then just let the nutcases fight it out. Last man/woman standing gets a complimentary fruit basket and a certificate that their belief was the best. And then the globe can just get on with it...