Comments on: The day before freedom http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/ ...small town life Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:43:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Palestar http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-840 Palestar Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:45:52 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/#comment-840 OOOPS! again - In the lower part of the'PHOTO'' Doc took says it all… “Be the change you want to see in the world…â€? ! OOOPS! again – In the lower part of the’PHOTO” Doc took says it all… “Be the change you want to see in the world…â€? !

]]> By: Palestar http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-839 Palestar Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:43:34 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/#comment-839 In the lower part of the phoro Doc took says it all... "Be the change you want to see in the world..." ! In the lower part of the phoro Doc took says it all… “Be the change you want to see in the world…” !

]]> By: Kevin Cox aka Bubba http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-835 Kevin Cox aka Bubba Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:06:45 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/#comment-835 I think that when the chalkboard is first unveiled we will see a spurt of interesting posts and drawings. Certainly John Grisham and the other celebrity attendees will have to leave their marks on the board. For a few months after that the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the actual owners of the monument, will engineer a show for the media that will make this thing look like it is all they dream it will be. Teachers from various schools will bring their students down to the mall on field trips to the monument. The students will produce thought provoking and creative works that will be genuinely interesting and the local news media will suck it up. It will look as though those who now say that this board will be a magnet for profane and juvenile graffiti are nothing but a bunch of pessimistic cynics. Give it a little time though and the truth will win out. It may not take too much time though, like maybe one night. I don't know what exactly will happen or when and that will at leat make it interesting to watch. Doc, Are you going to run in the VIA 5K on Saturday? I think that when the chalkboard is first unveiled we will see a spurt of interesting posts and drawings. Certainly John Grisham and the other celebrity attendees will have to leave their marks on the board. For a few months after that the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the actual owners of the monument, will engineer a show for the media that will make this thing look like it is all they dream it will be. Teachers from various schools will bring their students down to the mall on field trips to the monument. The students will produce thought provoking and creative works that will be genuinely interesting and the local news media will suck it up. It will look as though those who now say that this board will be a magnet for profane and juvenile graffiti are nothing but a bunch of pessimistic cynics. Give it a little time though and the truth will win out. It may not take too much time though, like maybe one night. I don’t know what exactly will happen or when and that will at leat make it interesting to watch.

Doc,
Are you going to run in the VIA 5K on Saturday?

]]> By: JJ http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-832 JJ Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:26:07 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/#comment-832 I may be wrong. I have limited data to base my judgement on. I will wait for RP's photo expose of the unveiled mural. I may be wrong. I have limited data to base my judgement on. I will wait for RP’s photo expose of the unveiled mural.

]]> By: JJ http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-831 JJ Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:10:24 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/#comment-831 There is a camera there, Raman's. The point of Free Speech is you get a lot of good, but you have to accept the bad side. My question is why does the city feel this is beneficial to the community? Fostering "constructive" Free Speech can be a great thing, but what they created seems to be a wall of random crap. Much like the wall in the gas station bathroom. "For a good time, meet TJ here at 8PM." The fact there is "pornography" in crude drawings is not the point. If you put up a public chalkboard, why shame people? Shame is just a way of getting rid of people who don't agree with the morals of the majority. Viva la Freedom! I feel some people were fooled into thinking this monument had ANYTHING to do with art. Ha ha ha ha..... Then, if they feel bad about spending all that money and censor it, it isn't even a monument to free speech. There is a camera there, Raman’s.

The point of Free Speech is you get a lot of good, but you have to accept the bad side. My question is why does the city feel this is beneficial to the community? Fostering “constructive” Free Speech can be a great thing, but what they created seems to be a wall of random crap. Much like the wall in the gas station bathroom.

“For a good time, meet TJ here at 8PM.”

The fact there is “pornography” in crude drawings is not the point. If you put up a public chalkboard, why shame people? Shame is just a way of getting rid of people who don’t agree with the morals of the majority. Viva la Freedom! I feel some people were fooled into thinking this monument had ANYTHING to do with art. Ha ha ha ha….. Then, if they feel bad about spending all that money and censor it, it isn’t even a monument to free speech.

]]> By: Palestar http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-830 Palestar Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:58:50 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/#comment-830 There you go - something to shame them - smile you are on candid camera... Not government - ranting is great idea... :) There you go – something to shame them – smile you are on candid camera…

Not government – ranting is great idea… :)

]]> By: Bubba http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-829 Bubba Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:54:29 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/#comment-829 What do you want a camera for? Do you want government surveilance of a monument to free expression so that people who wite something offensive can be arrested? Maybe their pictures could be published on The Cvlle Weeklys "Rant" page. What do you want a camera for? Do you want government surveilance of a monument to free expression so that people who wite something offensive can be arrested? Maybe their pictures could be published on The Cvlle Weeklys “Rant” page.

]]> By: Palestar http://www.outskirts.com/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-828 Palestar Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:36:35 +0000 http://www.outskirts.com/archives/2006/04/19/the-day-before-freedom/#comment-828 Jeez louise - these folks must have no respect for themselves or anyone else... Is there a place where a camera can be installed? :( Sadness :( Jeez louise – these folks must have no respect for themselves or anyone else…

Is there a place where a camera can be installed?

:( Sadness :(

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