Category: censorship
inquirer, blasphemy, sodomy
i leave it to radikalchick to respond to the world-class self-centered bigoted douchebag (in the words of carlos celdran) and his ilk who insist on their narrow shallow fallow takes on mideo’s art and censorship and the ccp. but this … Continue reading
Iconoclasm in art / failure of nerve
By Elmer Ordonez Senator Edgardo Angara may well have put the “Kulo” controversy to rest by not recommending sanctions against the CCP board. All possible sides were heard at last Tuesday’s Senate probe presided over by the former UP president. … Continue reading
censorship and, uh, karen davila? is that you?
the day after ccp closed the kulo exhibit, the day karen ocampo flores resigned from ccp, a crowing karen davila on teleradyo phoned ccp president raul sunico and said: CLEARLY YOU WILL HAVE TO CENSOR ARTWORK (!)
CCP folds to terrorism :(
on teleradyo, karen davila and vic what’shisname are ignorance & arrogance personified. speaking for an angry people daw, and telling us how to think and what to think. hey you two, you’re back in the dark ages, along with the … Continue reading
STAND FAST, CCP!
IF CATHOLIC clergymen had kept quiet, if Archbishop Oscar Cruz hadn’t called the exhibit “sickening,” if he hadn’t called the artist “sick,” if he hadn’t advised the artist to see a psychiatrist, if he hadn’t implied that the artist’s sexuality … Continue reading
HOW MONA LISA DIED
Walden Bello Representative Edcel Lagman of Albay has a term for legislative measures that gain approval in a congressional committee yet never make it to a full floor debate owing to one reason or other. He calls them “Mona Lisa” … Continue reading
manny villar vs. sex education?
thanks to whistlebloggers pete lacaba and john silva for calling attention to senate bill no. 2464 also known as the Anti-Obscenity and Pornography Act of 2008 now pending in the senate, which would violate the constitution’s tenets of freedom and … Continue reading
Censorship Blues
Inquirer Commentary January 9 & 10, 2000 Early in 1999 Pinoy society’s moral guardians were out in full force trying to stop government from executing the convicted child rapist Leo Echegaray on the grounds that to take his life, no … Continue reading