Indonesian anti-smut MP caught ogling filth An Indonesian MP who was instrumental in passing the country's controversial and tough anti-pornography law fell on his sword yesterday after being caught ogling smut in parliament. The mono-monickered Arfinto, of the "staunchly Islamic" Prosperous Justice Party, was captured last Friday by a local photojournalist as he copped …
I have long held the belief that all these laws about extreme porn, drawings, cartoons and the like reveals far more about the people drawing up the legislation than it does about the general public it is supposedly to protect.
I remember someone showing me the Simpsons porno cartoon years ago and having a chuckle because it was so daft. Next we have someone in power telling us that if we possess that cartoon we must go to jail and be on the sex offenders register for life because we must really be thinking about having sex with Lisa who is apparently 8 years old (and has been for the last 20 years). Er, she, IT is a cartoon, not a person of any age, and it was funny, at least to me, and I for one never had ANY thoughts, not even the tiniest hint of of a thought about underage sex until someone tried to suggest that it was child porn.
It is almost as if they have these weird thoughts themselves, that they look at cartoons and immediately imagine child porn. Hot news - the rest of us don't imagine that. It never even crossed our minds. So where did this association come from? Well it wasn't in my head, and I'd guess not in many heads of the great masses. As far as I can see the thought originated only in the heads of those framing the laws. Now who should be protected from whom?
It's in indonesia, so who knows. Generally speaking, when someone causes trouble for a senator, that someone has an accident. Joe Fandango only has to give the cops the expected bribe and he's golden, too.
Generally, laws like this are designed to be useful vehicles for fucking over inconvenient people. In Singapore they do much the same thing. In Malaysia they accuse inconvenient people of sodomy, of all things. Christ knows what they use in the Philippines... Well, bullets, basically.
It's a short, shitty, sad life.
don't most people say what any prospective electorate, employer, policeman, judge etc. wants to hear rather than the absolute truth?
I see no problem in hiding irrelevant truths, we are all entitled to some privacy, hypocritical lying to hide very relevant truths in order to gain the trust of ones peers is something else altogether.
so many buildings round here are like this http://www.mjtravelhk.com/public_html/images/ifc2.jpg and our soon-to-be completed new government offices will look like this http://www.urbika.com/imgs/projects/large/4454_tamar-development.jpg
It just all gets a bit much.
I blame the architects!
Yep, the one with the 10,000 tonnes of wet concrete and the reinforcing rods in the pocket please.
Isn't it amazing how often the prudes who imagine the terrible harm in anything to do with the body and sex are later found to be complete hypocrites. It couldn't possibly be that the prurience is really in their own minds, could it? There should be a criminal offence of political hypocricy.
I have a little mental list which I must make into a written one. These are what I can recall off the top of my head, there are more:
1. Senator George Foley, US ex senator - law against children and Naturism - resigned when his relations with child interns were found out.
2. Arfinto - this example
3. Wasn't there another case of a politician caught watching something similar in similar circumstances?
And then there is the related Jacqui Smith incident. Her seeking to censor the internet via the backdoor couldn't possibly be anything to do with that expenses claim could it?
Should we take seeking to deny people freedom of expression and consumption on sex and body related issues to be a symptom of a dirty mind? Is it an indicator of paedophile tendencies?
I think all laws should be automatically repealed after 5 years. This would mean the various parliaments would spend their life redebating and reinstating basic laws (like try not to stab your neighbour because he has the wrong colour shirt) that they would be unable to introduce the sort of terrible legislation that marks most government.
However the real truth is that the problem starts with democracy. If you give every unthinking stupid, moronic, idiotic, sun-reading, blithering idiot the vote then you get the thick t**** 'electing' the sort of stupid idiotic unpleasant power grabbing hypocritical oafs we have had in our parliament for at least the last 40 years.
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