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Post number 4981

capt.crackpipe — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:16:35 -0800

Big Networks get a slap on the wrist for letting the White House pay for anti-drug scripts.

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:06:06 -0800

Wait, wait, I thought it was the corporations who were buying the government. I'm all confuzzed now. If anyone deserves to be spanked, it's the White House officials who thought up this stunt. But of course, they're on their way out anyway, and I doubt there was anything criminal about what they did.

By: capt.crackpipe

capt.crackpipe — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:23:04 -0800

Big corporations are the government.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:36:40 -0800

What's so stupid is the way it was done under the table. If they had just gone above-board and put a card up during the credits something like "This anti-drug message brought to you by the White House Drug Office", most people wouldn't have blinked.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:24:53 -0800

I would have blinked. That would say to me: "This message brought to you by the government in hopes that you will change your anti-social behavior and start being a productive citizen." Sounds like Orwell was just off by a few decades.

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:35:59 -0800

What exactly is wrong with a government that *hopes* you aren't being anti-social and non-productive? I don't see anything Orwellian in that.

By: capt.crackpipe

capt.crackpipe — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:51:07 -0800

What makes you think drug users are anti-social and non-productive? Sounds like you're towing somebody's line.

By: fullerine

fullerine — Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:06:19 -0800

Oh come on capt. anti-social, not really but non-productive, too fucking right As bill says, I coud go to work for eight hours...

By: Dreama

Dreama — Sat, 30 Dec 2000 09:46:10 -0800

What makes you think that drug users are social and productive, capt.? Sounds like you're towing somebody's line.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:42:29 -0800

y6, check out some arcade video games once in a while. There's an antidrug message with an FBI logo on some of them.

By: capt.crackpipe

capt.crackpipe — Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:41:35 -0800

dhartung, "winners don't use drugs." I didn't attribute any stereotype to them. In my experience, people who aren't addicts and use drugs are rather productive (usually in creative or people-oriented jobs) and rather social. I think the free speech issue illustrated in this article is more important than the drug issue. We all have the right to free speech, and the right to receive free speech, but does the Government? Should the institution which is supposed to reflect the people it represents have a stance on social issues? How could we trust the Government to reprimand the corporations it used to deceive the public? Answer to the last: We can't, because the reprimand didn't sting.

By: acridrabbit

acridrabbit — Sat, 30 Dec 2000 20:57:18 -0800

um, first, may I please point out that the correct phrase is "toeing the line"? I'm just sayin'.

By: youhas

youhas — Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:50:06 -0800

I dunno - I think my easy access to vast quantities of street-legal caffeine is the only thing keeping me from a non-productive lifestyle most mornings.... Oh wait, I forgot: caffeine "doesn't count" as a drug. My bad. Never mind.

By: dagnyscott

dagnyscott — Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:53:02 -0800

This is like going back to the days of one company sponsoring a TV show where you had to be sure not to say anything controversial so you got their money. Except instead of a company, you have the government, which is worse. aagh...

By: Ptrin

Ptrin — Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:13:25 -0800

There is no "government." There is a collection of governmental organizations that operate in parallel, but there isn't enough organization for a gov't conspiracy stretching from the courts to the presidency.

By: capt.crackpipe

capt.crackpipe — Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:06:24 -0800

thanks acid.

By: Zool

Zool — Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:24:43 -0800

You drink coffee, you are a drug user. You take aspirin, you are a drug user.