Text 27043, 91 rader
Skriven 2012-03-19 07:15:42 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 26917 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Once Upon a Time
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18 Mar 12 10:59, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RB> Roy Witt wrote to Robert Bashe on Saturday March 17 2012 at 06:44:

 RW>> Which brings up an interesting point. Why would the German police
 RW>> fear what the neo-Nazi party is doing in East Germany? How many
 RW>> murders does it take before the police start to do their job?

 RB> This whole business started with several mysterious murders, Roy.

Several turned into 17 or more...

 RB> All over Germany, several owners of Kiosks (small refreshment stands
 RB> selling drinks, maybe sausage, cigarettes and the like).

We have kiosks here too.

 RB> The dead were all of foreign extraction, but not all islamic. There
 RB> was nothing to connect them except the fact that they'd all been shot
 RB> with the same weapon. No apparent reason, no connection. The
 RB> situation was under investigation for several years, but there were
 RB> simnply no leads.

Ok.

 RB> Then, one fine day, there was an explosion in a house. Two people,
 RB> both young men, were killed, and a third person, a woman, escaped
 RB> harm. While investigating the cause of the explosion, police found
 RB> the murder weapon and a large number of neo-Nazi literature and
 RB> posters. Further investigation and questioning of the surviving woman
 RB> then showed that this had been some kind of a neo-Nazi cell and that
 RB> the men had done the murders. Further investigation is still in
 RB> progress.

 RB> It wasn't a question of the police not doing their job - there was
 RB> simply nothing to tie the murders in with some kind of radical
 RB> conspiracy until the explosion (people now think the two were trying
 RB> to make bombs) happened and provided the first concrete lead in the
 RB> cases.

Finally.

 RB>>> as the American (puritan-derived) fixation on sex. I suppose
 RB>>> there's something similar - some "hangup" - in every country you'd
 RB>>> care to mention.

 RW>> Sex is an everyday occurance on TV and in movies these days, so the
 RW>> only thing I can think of about any hangup is that some parents
 RW>> still have young children who also watch the same programs as the
 RW>> adults do.

 RB> I seem to remember something termed "Nippelgate" in the States, that
 RB> elicited a hearty "ho-hum" in practically every European.

As it did here for many of us. Besides, the nipple was on a person not
very well liked by most Americans...but it was the FCC who complained the
most because they were the recipients of public complaints.

 RB> On the other hand, computer games that include violence (for example
 RB> Duke Nukem) are often banned in Germany, but sold over the counter in
 RB> the States.

Hell, even the cartoons of the 30s to 80s and beyond had violence in them.
They were even shown on Saturday morning TV when I was a kid, yet didn't
invoke any harm to those of us who were watching them. Remember Elmer Fudd
shooting at Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck?

 RB> Every place has it's own hang-ups, and they're rarely the
 RB> same ones.

Probably so.

 RW>> This is why most sexual content is aired  after prime time (when the
 RW>> kiddies are supposed to be in bed)...

 RB> Same here, but "sexual content" is defined less rigorously then in
 RB> the States. And violent films are also usually shown late at night.

If you want to see violence that appears during prime time (8pm here) try
giving Itunes.com/walkingdead a look...


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