John Beyer: lock up porn viewers
Massah John Beyer, the smut-campaigning Black and White Minstrels fan who likens himself to St Paul, has written a letter to Home Secretary Charles Clarke.
Its main theme is the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, where he hopes the UK will take the lead in regulating porn on the internet by pressing for an international treaty on Internet Governance. As usual he witters on about what he regards as the “public interest”, and how self-regulation and consumer control are “not good enough”.
But he also comes up with a new line or argument – a real gem to add to your collection of Beyerisms:
We are also aware of a Unesco Convention that has been drawn up aimed at safeguarding cultural diversity and we understand that this, too, offers the possibility of affecting Internet content that fails to comply with the conditions as set out. It seems to us that pornography represents an imposed culture that is the very opposite of diverse!
Good one, Johnny boy!
In passing, he also commends the government’s consultation on the possession of “extreme pornographic material” (ie pictures of consenting adults pretending to hurt each other), but expresses his desire that the scope of material should be broadened to include that currently classed as “R18” by the BBFC.
In other words, he wants to imprison people for up to 3 years for looking at pictures of adults having sex.
The Melon Farmers have a few words to say about this:
I can understand people campaigning for less sex/swearing/violence on TV. But I cannot believe the pits of humanity that John Beyer has sunk to.
How can any ‘respectful’ person suggest that people should be locked up for 3 years in prison for merely viewing R18 hardcore pornography? The amount of misery inflicted on people, their families and society in general would be incalculable. This sadistic wish for the infliction of so much pain on society is surely one of the worst cases of ‘extreme pornography’ that have been reported to date. Does he also call for concentration camps to house all the people that he wants imprsioned?
(Thanks to Shaun)
They should put Mr. Beyer in prison for incitement to abuse of Human Rights. If that’s not a crime, perhaps it ought to be……
More demonstration of Beyer’s desire to see those who watch things he dissaproves of punished by law and for the state to be interfering in our private lives.
Beyer’s fulminating diatribe is, surprise, surprise, standard Daily Mail propaganda recycled for the handful of conservative extremists that Media-Watch has for members. But wait! In raising the issue of the film ‘9 Songs’ with fellow extremist Charles Clarke, did this irritating reactionary really intend to suggest that it “should not be permitted for pubic exhibition” (on their website). Surely that’s not all viewers would see… right?
Arf!
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