If you have listened to the radio or watched TV lately you have noticed that all the movies on network TV stations are beginning to look like bad Japanese Godzilla movies with “acceptable” words being dubbed in for the words deemed by someone to be inappropriate. Censorship is bad and only leads to more censorship and eventually acts like book burning. If elected President I would work to immediately repeal all forms of censorship. This includes record labels, CD labels, TV ratings and Movie ratings. Essentially anything that allows those who would choose for us to develop marketing techniques to exclude materials that have been marked “Unacceptable”.

I do recognize a parents right to have a "heads up" on the content of a show or purchased product prior to their children recieving it. But I believe this can be accomplished in a way that does not effect the marketability of the item in question.

Words are not bad. They may be expressive and some people may think they are vulgar, however everyone in this country has the right to express themselves in the way they see fit. The more the government try’s to control how we speak the more weight the controlled words will have. I see no reason why Eminem’s “Without Me” CD cannot be played in it’s entirety on the radio.

In light of recent events (February 2004) this issue has become even more important. The response to the recent Super Bowl half time show was simply ridiculous! An the recent zero tolerance directive for radio stations is equally ridiculous. All people have a choice, if it offends you TURN IT OFF, don't try to keep other people from it. Guess what, most of them are not offended.