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---The middle east has one functioning democracy and that's Israel---

Democracy perhaps, but a nation founded on religion predetermines the world view of its inhabitants in a quite rigid fashion.  

---All the regimes in that area are anti-woman, anti-free speach and rampantly homophobic, but the people who oppose all these things in this country see them as OK abroad. Some one want to explain all this to me?---

I don't think any of the 'liberals' who oppose a war on Iraq think these attitudes are OK.  They aren't.  However, any war fought by America will not be to liberate women, install democracy or ensure equal rights for people of all sexualities.  Firstly, a democracy will eventually demand control over its national resources, rather than their exploitation by foreign companies.  Secondly, Bush's power base includes the Chistian right, which in some cases celebrates the murders of gays and equates feminism with communism.

 

----The mass population of earth are innocent of the crimes but responsible for who is elected; at least in the so called civillised west. "crimes but responsible for who is elected; at least in the so called civillised west"

Oh do behave. The west has provided the greatest standard of living for the greatest number of people, ever. ----

What I think he was trying to say here was that if there is any people on Earth who *are* responsible for the actions of our leaders, it is us in the Western democracies.  Therefore atrocities committed in *our* name are our responsibility.  BTW, September 11th is also the anniversary of the fal of Allende in Chile, to replaced by Pinochet with the help of the US. His regime 'disappeared' more people than the WTC attacks killed.  And this is all the worse because, while 9/11 was committed by a few loons who, with all due respect, are relatively powerless in a global sense, the people who put Pinochet in power are still influential in US government today.  And that is real power.  And the people of America did, in some cases, vote for them.  

If we're going to shut down the terrorist training camps, let's start with the 'School of the Americas', where the vast majority of Latin America's torturer's, death squads and dictators are graduates from.

Art,

I thought that it showed that even Grant Morrisson had an occasional moan about Future Shocks.  But, of course, (through what seems sheer perseverance) he succeeded and got a few published.  Gives hope to everyone with a rejection letter.  This still does not include me.

Brunei - a country where women in swimsuits and buddist monks are cut out of Time magazine - I got an issue of 2000AD with a transvestite robot on the cover.

No and no

Sorry

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Or are you taking the michael (again)?
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Believe nothing!

Mind you, after the eponymous series was bought by ITV I'm inclined to believe anything - including a Fleischer/Kane super-teamup for a new 2000AD series.

Andy B.

Were all just too credulous, particularly when it's something that we want to believe is true.

Andy B

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I'm mystified when readers slag off things like 'The Balls Brothers' and 'Urban Strike' so vehemently.
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Arggh! Urban Strike!  Page after page of mock swearing and ridiculous video game characters.  Fun for a few episodes, but that ran and ran and ran, didn't it?

Surely a warning to Rebellion not to attempt to much of a tie in, at least in the direction 'video game to comic'?

Andy B.

I was watching the heats of 'Britain's Strongest Man' when I noticed one of the competitors had what looked like a 'Judge Dredd' tattoo on his shoulder.  The lettering of the word 'Judge', which was all that was visible was very similar to the title/logo used.  And I couldn't think of anything else that would come after 'Judge' on a tattoo on a strongman.

(Candidate to replace the sc*j* favourite Toby Longworth in the 'upcoming' films?)

But the mystery deepens.  This man who may have a Judge Dredd tattoo on his shoulder went by the name of Simon Flint.  Ruling out the possibility that there may be more than one family of Flints in Britain (against the evidence of my own cousins) I wondered if he may be any relation to Henry (or even the man himself under a pseudodym)?

I was watching the heats of 'Britain's Strongest Man' when I noticed one of the competitors had what looked like a 'Judge Dredd' tattoo on his shoulder.  The lettering of the word 'Judge', which was all that was visible was very similar to the title/logo used.  And I couldn't think of anything else that would come after 'Judge' on a tattoo on a strongman.

(Candidate to replace the sc*j* favourite Toby Longworth in the 'upcoming' films?)

But the mystery deepens.  This man who may have a Judge Dredd tattoo on his shoulder went by the name of Simon Flint.  Ruling out the possibility that there may be more than one family of Flints in Britain (against the evidence of my own cousins) I wondered if he may be any relation to Henry (or even the man himself under a pseudodym)?

I wondered if anyone on here could help me with these questions:

Do the Judges have a squad specifically for the protection of perps (i.e. after release)?  Has this topic ever been given the attention of a Dredd story?  If so, where and when?

Thanks,

Andy B.

I collect, but that's because I can't see the point in throwing away good reading.  I wouldn't throw away a book after reading it.  I'd put it on my shelf, in my library (I wish).

Andy B.

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I wonder how PC supporters in this thread feel about Garth Ennis's excellent PREACHER? There's no end of characters caling each other queer in jest and in insult. Would you say this is acceptable? Should PREACHER be banned?

Bollocks. Tolerance is not about censoring what we have to say about one another - it's about letting us have free speech and tolerating it, agrreing to disagree.
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I've not read Preacher, but offence is not caused by how characters speak to each other in a fiction - after all, we can have murderers and rapists in there.

And I would agree with you on censorship - evryone should be free to air their views.

However, if someone writes a story that promotes a homophobic or racist etc. agenda (as all stories tell you *something* politically, even if it is just that the status quo is good enough for me), then I think it is only fair to point this out and comment negatively on the writer and story.  

Andy B.

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If I called a guy a dickhead he'd get over it. If I called a gay black guy a dickhead, he's got grounds to sue and call me a bigot for my racist and personal verbal assualt.
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Perhaps.  But you wouldn't be unless you called him a dickhead *because* he was black.  And this is why many gay jokes are offensive, as they are made *because* the person is gay.  For example Caliber's comment about kicking arses than stickinf dicks up them *was* the equivalent of some joke involving bongo drums and Africa when talking about black superheroes.  As I'm not Bernard Manning I can't quote one just now.  I'm sure no offence was meant, but the comment betrays a mindset that sets gays as the 'other'.

Andy B.

And there's two guys who are lovers in Milligan's X-Force books.  Slow news day?  Sounds more like cynical exploitation by the DC PR guys to me.