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A bunch of Hollywood celebrities including Martin Sheen, Pierce Brosnan, Ted
Danson, Barbra Streisand and Jane Seymour are leading a campaign to halt BHP's plan to build a $5
billion liquefied natural gas terminal off the coast of the Los Angeles seaside
community of Malibu.
These self-absorbed, airheads are opposing the terminal on the grounds it
would be an environmental polluter. The private jets, cruisers and limousines of
these super-rich lefties collectively would probably emit more greenhouse gases
than some third-world countries.
Leader of the pack, former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan
declared at a fundraiser in Malibu last month, "This proposed liquefied
natural gas terminal is part of a globalised assault taking place on our
Earth".
Such profundity. And I thought the project was to provide the future energy
needs of the residents of California.
The terminal's jet-setting opponents claim the project would be an environmental polluter
and "negatively impact on the health and safety of our families."
What monumental hypocrisy. For the past three decades the US entertainment industry
has been negatively impacting on the health and safety of families
throughout the Western world.
The US entertainment industry sucks billions of dollars from Western economies, while sowing the seeds of
cultural destruction.
US pop culture brings us violence, greed, lawlessness and disrespect for others. Movies and videos glamorize extreme violence. Rap songs preach murder, rape, promiscuity and lawlessness. Video games encourage youngsters to blow their enemies to pieces.
How many on-screen killings by Brosnan have been witnessed by a
generation of impressionable children? Or by Willis or Van Damme or Segal or Stallone?
An Australian child, on average, has witnessed 15,000 movie and TV murders by the age of 15. Is it any wonder we are becoming an increasingly violent society? Over 1000 studies have linked TV and movie violence to aggressive behaviour in children and adults.
The Muslims have a point. Why should they want to integrate into such a
society.
I suggest the Federal government would do all Australians an enormous favour if it had the courage to
make a stand against this cultural destruction.
The Commonwealth Censor's function should be re-defined to give a cultural rating to all movies, TV
programs, computer games and songs, from all sources, by way of a points system. Each product
should be rated according to its culturally destructive aspects, i.e. the more anti-social, the more points.
The points should be translated into a cultural levy (tax) to be applied to that product. If the material was not anti-social there would be no points and no levy.
The funds raised from the anti-culture tax could be given to the Australian entertainment industry to promote positive-culture productions by Australian artists and companies.
This policy will not ban the material and drive it underground. It only seeks to charge the multi-national marketing machines a heavy premium for the privilege of flogging their culturally destructive material.
Has any Western government got the courage to implement such a policy?
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