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power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Big Brother is alive and well in the United Kingdom


GOVERNMENT APPROVED CLOTHING:   Chinese Communist Youth League
The UK Conservative Party would approve

Cameron-backed report to protect children from commercialization

The Conservative government of the UK is very worried about the TV shows you are watching and the clothes you are wearing. 

REMEMBER:   watch only Government approved TV images and wear only Government approved clothing.


Prime Minister David Cameron is to back a plan to stop retailers selling inappropriate clothes for pre-teens and shield children from sexualised imagery across all media, including selling "lads magazines" in brown covers and making the watchdog Ofcom more answerable to the views of parents.

Retailers would be required to sign up to a new code preventing the sale of items for pre-teens with suggestive slogans, which the prime minister has repeatedly criticised.

The proposals come in a long-awaited report, leaked to the Guardian, on the commercialization of childhood. It was commissioned by Cameron and is due to be published on Monday with strong support from Downing Street. Recommendations in the review, entitled Let children be children, include:

• The Advertising Standards Authority to discourage placement of billboards with sexualized imagery near schools and nurseries or other areas where children are likely to view it.

• A clampdown on sexualized and violent images shown before TV's 9pm watershed and curbs and cinema-style age rating for music videos.

• A single website to be created, to act as "an interface between parents and the variety of regulators across the media, communications and retail industries".

• Making it easier for parents to block age restricted material on the internet.

• Lads magazines to be moved to the top shelf in shops or sold in covers.

The report, which was prepared by Reg Bailey, the chief executive of the Christian charity Mothers' Union, finds "sexualized and gender stereotyped clothing, products and services for children are the biggest concerns for parents and many non-commercial organizations".

SOME ADVICE FOR MR. CAMERON:   The viewing of "unapproved" violent images must be controlled by the Big Brother state.  As a public service I suggest the following broadcast images be banned from TV. 
  • All movies about Jesus (he was brutally killed)
  • All John Wayne films
  • The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy killed two women in that movie)
  • All Agatha Christie productions (she has bodies piling up all over)
  • Star Wars
  • Shakespeare
  • Ben Hur
  • and all Three Stooges shows (for the obvious reasons)

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