Comments on: Go See The Second Banned Opus strip http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Wiley Miller http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-66596 Wiley Miller Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:40:26 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-66596 "and try to remember what freedom of speech and thought where like when I was in college." Why do you hate America? :-) “and try to remember what freedom of speech and thought where like when I was in college.”

Why do you hate America? :-)

]]> By: richard blaine http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-66594 richard blaine Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:26:47 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-66594 Late to join the fray. Ever wonder what we're spending billions of bucks a month fighting terrorism and extremists around the world? It is so lawyers and add agencies can have the final say about free speech. Anyone read "Farenhiet 451" lately? Synopsis: In an effort not to offend anyone or group, books are banned and only government/lawyer sanitized television is authorized. Violators of this decree witness their homes/businesses being set alight before they are carted off to prison. Twenty-plus years ago Breathed had a cartoon where the characters took offense at each other. Very funny then. Should be funny now. Heck, I think I'm going to get a beer, light up a cigarette, listen to Richard Pryor's "Bicentenial Niggar" on the turntable, and try to remember what freedom of speech and thought where like when I was in college. Late to join the fray. Ever wonder what we’re spending billions of bucks a month fighting terrorism and extremists around the world? It is so lawyers and add agencies can have the final say about free speech.

Anyone read “Farenhiet 451″ lately? Synopsis: In an effort not to offend anyone or group, books are banned and only government/lawyer sanitized television is authorized. Violators of this decree witness their homes/businesses being set alight before they are carted off to prison.

Twenty-plus years ago Breathed had a cartoon where the characters took offense at each other. Very funny then. Should be funny now.

Heck, I think I’m going to get a beer, light up a cigarette, listen to Richard Pryor’s “Bicentenial Niggar” on the turntable, and try to remember what freedom of speech and thought where like when I was in college.

]]> By: JeffM http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62165 JeffM Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:09:18 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62165 Thank God my local paper is still running the strip, including last weeks. Thank God my local paper is still running the strip, including last weeks.

]]> By: jonathan mahood http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62159 jonathan mahood Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:51:39 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62159 ...so what was all the flap about again? …so what was all the flap about again?

]]> By: Russ Nichols http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62158 Russ Nichols Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:36:11 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62158 I checked out that ahiida.com site that was on the poster in the last panel. It is a real site for Muslim swimwear similar to the kind worn by the lady in the Opus strip. Total coverup. I have no idea how anyone could swim in that outfit. In other words, this is not a joke. Maybe the editors who censored it thought it made too much fun of real Muslim swim styles. Personally I thought the strip was very innocuous. Maybe not even as funny as most Opus strips. The L.A. Times ran it. I checked out that ahiida.com site that was on the poster in the last panel. It is a real site for Muslim swimwear similar to the kind worn by the lady in the Opus strip. Total coverup. I have no idea how anyone could swim in that outfit. In other words, this is not a joke. Maybe the editors who censored it thought it made too much fun of real Muslim swim styles. Personally I thought the strip was very innocuous. Maybe not even as funny as most Opus strips. The L.A. Times ran it.

]]> By: Russ Nichols http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62157 Russ Nichols Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:33:18 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62157 I checked out that ahiida.com site that was on the poster in the last panel. It is a real site for Muslim swimwear similar to the kind worn by the lady in the Opus strip. In other words, this is not a joke. Maybe the editors who censored it thought it made too much fun of real Muslim swim styles. Personally I thought the strip was very innocuous. Maybe not even as funny as most Opus strips. The L.A. Times ran it. I checked out that ahiida.com site that was on the poster in the last panel. It is a real site for Muslim swimwear similar to the kind worn by the lady in the Opus strip. In other words, this is not a joke. Maybe the editors who censored it thought it made too much fun of real Muslim swim styles. Personally I thought the strip was very innocuous. Maybe not even as funny as most Opus strips. The L.A. Times ran it.

]]> By: Keith http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62150 Keith Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:08:17 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62150 It is another sad Sunday. If the editors of newspapers don't worry about freedom of the press and cave so easily to censorship, why should we, as citizens, care? It is another sad Sunday. If the editors of newspapers don’t worry about freedom of the press and cave so easily to censorship, why should we, as citizens, care?

]]> By: Rich Diesslin http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62148 Rich Diesslin Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:10:44 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2007/09/04/go-see-the-second-banned-opus-strip/#comment-62148 So far this seem pretty harmless to me. So far this seem pretty harmless to me.

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