"Frank McCoy" <mccoyf@millcomm.com> wrote in message
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> Probably from LEA trying to get me to break the conditions of my
> release, supposedly about a particular story.
Gee, do 'ya think?
'Da Judge must be getting close to releasing a decision and needs an
excuse to arrest you again.
> I'm deliberately NOT mentioning the name of the story; though it WAS
> the one the Prosecution missed the whole point of; and then tried to
> get said point suppressed when they brought that particular story into
> the trial.
>
> I thought some people might be interested in my reply:
>
> At 07:37 PM 1/1/2012 -0800, he wrote:
>>That story was incredibly sexy and i was wondering if you had
>>anymore you could send to me.
Gosh, if he found THAT story he should know where the rest are.
> Nope. Sorry.
> You'll have to find stories yourself.
>
>> I'm now a huge fan of your work. Especially the inclusion
>>of the mom watching/taking part. I was also curious how old
>>were you intending the daughter to be.
>
> Ah ... But that was the whole POINT: I wasn't.
> Every good story has at least one point. Look for it/them.
> That's a tiny part of what makes stories literature.
> Making the reader think is another part.
> There are others ....
>
>> Thank you very much for writing that magnificent story.
>>your fan
>
> Glad you liked it.
> Sorry I really can't discuss my specific stories or where they are at
> present.
> I can only discuss stories in general.
>
> Well ... OK ... I can discuss MY stories in general:
> They're literature.
> They're carefully crafted ... "Art", if you wish.
> Almost all are political propaganda first and everything else second.
> They're all love-stories.
> They all have points or twists intended to surprise the reader or make
> him/her think.
> They tend to leave as much as possible to the imagination of the
> reader. (See above.)
> They're intended to be FUN to read ... a light read ... mostly.
> Most have at least some humor ... some of it dark-humor ... and some
> carefully hidden humor.
> And finally, every one of MY stories (with one possible exception of
> the short one written in response to a flame-war, pointing out the
> silliness of BOTH sides), I wouldn't mind exchanging places with any
> one of the main characters, were it possible.
> In doing-so, and in-keeping with the main-aims of being true
> literature (and as-said, political propaganda), every one of my
> stories is intended to make the reader THINK, and hopefully examine
> his/her preconceptions as to whether they are actually valid.
>
> Propaganda is a dirty word these days.
> And yet ... We're bombarded with it from political parties on all
> sides.
> We also get clobbered with essentially the same thing in advertising.
> Funny that:
> "Advertising" is considered decent and honorable.
> "Propaganda" is considered dirty and dishonorable.
> And yet ... They're exactly the same thing; just different words for
> same.
> "Advertising my views" is what I do to get my point about the truth
> across.
> "Propaganda" is what you do to distort the truth about me.
>
> Yeah, right.
> Political Propaganda is supposedly the most protected of all Free
> Speech under the First Amendment; because without the right to speak
> up and complain or try to change what we feel are unjust laws, none of
> us really has any rights at all.
>
> That's why we raise such objections when other countries like China
> convict and imprison their citizens for complaining about unjust
> conditions in their homelands.
>
> My stories are *MY* objection and method of trying to change what I
> feel are wrong, stupid, or unjust laws (or the way they are enforced)
> in THIS country. This sort of writing has a long and hallowed record
> in History, from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to "A Modest Proposal".
>
> Some people feel that if something is illegal, then people shouldn't
> even be allowed to discuss or try to change the law making it so.
> Idiots.
>
> The Framers of our Constitution, when they put in the first ten
> amendments, made the point of protecting people's rights to complain,
> to gather together, and to write and publish such complaints the very
> FIRST item to be listed; and with good reason: Without THAT right,
> none of the others exist.
>
> Stories and satire (yes, like my stories) have a long and venerable
> history of pointing out things that need changing by extremely
> exaggerating things to the point where the laws they seem to be
> flouting begin to look ridiculous.
>
> And ... That is the point:
> A law cannot be made to look ridiculous, unless to some extent it is.
> You cannot make the law-of-gravity look ridiculous, for example.
> But a law limiting what people can say, speak about, or believe?
>
> Look again at the First Amendment; and see why they included not
> allowing State Religion in almost the same sentence as they protected
> people's rights to peacefully assemble, speak about their grievances
> and have a place to publish what they have to say ....
>
> "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
> or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
> speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
> assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
>
> http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/First_amendment
>
> Even if by making up "dirty stories" to make fun of silly, stupid, or
> badly enforced laws by turning the whole concept upside-down to the
> point of what IS illegal here-and-now might be not just legal under
> another system, but *enforced*.
>
> Sometimes we have such things in reality here-and-now.
> For example: In the USA, we have (and have-had) "blue laws" that
> essentially ENFORCE religious observance of Sunday ... While in other
> countries, particularly Communist ones ... Such observance is at least
> effectively outlawed.
Ain't that strange, the Constitution prohibits the government from
sponsoring
a religion, but passes laws mandating Sunday observence as a religious day.
> So, we don't NEED to write fantasy stories about such laws of either
> kind. We only need document the ridiculous that happens when either
> law takes over.
>
> However, SILLY laws, or counterproductive laws (Like, for-example, the
> so-called "War on Drugs" that causes far more problems than it
> solves.) truly NEED to be ridiculed and yes, stories written that turn
> the idea of solving personal problems like drug-addiction by making it
> illegal into as silly a proposition as Prohibition turned out to be.
> However, THAT issue isn't my problem. Other people are making the
> case well enough without me. I picked an issue that isn't being
> addressed by others.
>
> I'm NOT a public-orator; and my personal charisma is almost negative.
> However, I CAN write a readable, humorous, and middlin'-interesting
> story.
> Stories that make such a point.
> Stories that ARE literature, if only by making said point.
>
> AND, if nobody else is willing to stand up and write such stories or
> otherwise fight what I see as wrong, silly, stupid, or badly-enforced
> laws ....
> Well, then it becomes a civic-duty for me to do so.
>
> Sorry ... You pulled my chain.
> The soapbox is empty.
> NEXT!
>
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