An email has been going around urging people to sign
this petition:
To: George Bush
Some people are signing against anime and are calling is to be a "perverse, evil, insiduous form of animation from the dark land of Japan, and is corrupting America's youth at unprecedented rates." Anime is NOT corrupting the youth of America, and since when has America become a country of Christians? Isn't there a SEPARATION of Church and State? Isn't this a ban on our Freedom of Speech? And Freedom of Press? What does anime have to do with brainwashing our youth?
Even though I'm not sure what 'signing against anime' is supposed to mean, I do know that there is no movement underfoot by any politician to ban anime. But it's worth scrolling through the messages left by the 4129 people who signed the petition. Some of them are quite amusing.
Comments
take away anime, take away cartoons.
take away manga, take away comic books.
thats how i see it. an eye for an eye.
ANIME FOREVER!!!!!>_<
kind of disagree with this statment "since when has America become a country of Christians?" most of are four fathers were or belived in there principles so that was kind of a dumb statement.
I'll keep short and sweet, and sad to a point.
1: Online petitions appear to be a waste of time and space, but alas. It's the internet. Free is free, and passing time is passing time.
2: That petition was pretty funny. But sadly, sometimes I wish to agree with that logic. (Although by no means in an extreme 'Right Wing' sort of way.) In my time of increasing depression over the loss of anime to the hungry and cruel American business market, I find myself wishing for the old days when only a handful of people knew what Japanese animation actually was, and there was no "Japanophiling" going on. It's gotten to the point of being rather ridiculous now a days.
Well, that's all I have to say for now, but I'll probably be back.
A die-hard anime fan willing to go to jail for it,
LaLa
P.S. Check out http://www.writing.com/authors/lala13 :-D
p.s. o in the petition you DID mention Love Hina...just lettin you know
Dear Mr. Fuller,
I've come to the conclusion that you have helped write this petition. After reading it, there are many things incorrect with it.
1. Ah! My Goddess and Love Hina are not meant for children. The DVD cases blatantly state "For Ages 16+" or "For Ages 17+". Use common sense, please.
2. In Ah! My Goddess, the goddess Belldandy is NOT under 18 years of age. She is probably much older, because she is a goddess. Again, common sense.
3. You don't state which George Bush the petition is to go to. Do some research next time.
4. The "Responsible Americans Against Child Exploitation" is not a real organization. Google and Wikipedia, high traffic ranked web sites on the internet, came up with nothing. Compared to your fake organization, you'd at least get my self-created web site for my cosplay group, the Neko Mercenaries Group Indignation.
5. What the hell? Your email address has "neko", the Japanese word for "cat", in it, and yet you wrote a petition against anime? You're a fluke!
6. "As a resonsible Christian, I demand to see this garbage removed from our nation. Please sign this petition and send it to George Bush, your Congressman, and the makers/distributors of anime filth and depravity. "
WHOA WHOA WHOA! You're a Christian (Maybe you aren't, but you helped write the petition, you're getting a flame and a half.), and yet you think George Bush (Which one again? That wasn't stated.) will listen to you? Hey, here's something you should research: Separation of Church and State. It's part of the United States Constitution. I don't think you're going to win this. Oh, and use a spell checker. It's spelled "responsible".
All in all, you have lost this, and a petition was created just now (7:23 PM, January 15, 2007) to petition your petition.
Sincerely,
-Seph-kun
Get a fucking life, and get over it. If you don't want anime in your house, then buy tivo or whatever to block it. But I can tell you now, you will never be able to block anime, you block anime you block all cartoons, and everything from cartoons, to the oprah bitch that you watch for 3 hours a day. Have fun watching a black blank screen you fuckers!
Furthermore, you would have media companies that would also rally to fight against such a ban if it were to occur since many do earn money producing and localizing anime for the American market. And, even companies that do not produce anime could see the precedent that such a ban could entail and would also fight against such a ban. Plus, there would be civil rights organizations such as the ACLU that would rally against a ban. And, this is on top of regular people who enjoy anime who may also act to see that such a ban be rejected.
In all, a call for such a ban would have to be a hoax or from a harebrained moron who wants to dictate to others what is acceptable and what is not. - Reinhart
who has a japanese word for their email and then calls the japanese filthy?
If the president hates Japanese that does not make him a good Christian either...... Because to hate someone means to 'kill' them..... And as Christians, we do not hate because we are God's precious children......
Imagine I've met some of my Christian friends that even said that hentai anime is no different since in general some of them seem 'equivalent' to 'Hollywood' adult themed films......
Just that some young American generation lack decency these days.... Because of the deep influence of pop culture of them...... particularly Hollywood in general, some teen dramas with all the cultural stereotypes, how young celebrities dress that some young people tried to follow...... Just to conclude it is hard these days to define what is decent and right in terms of media these days..... well, anime is part of media tat was why...... Ciao~~~~
1. Most Christians aren't like the nonsensical authors of that so-called petition.
2. Those flaming the petition authors are using a equally as nonsensical logic as the petition authors themselves.
3. Please do not try to sound like you're intelligent and then claim there is a Separation of Church & State when there is none. Read the Constitution.
Though I disagree with the authors of this petition, I am both an Evangelical Christian and an avid Anime fan. I believe that there should always be intellectual debates on controversial subjects. But once you start coming off as being as equally moronic as those whom you're trying to debate it ceases being a debate and becomes a hissing match. Which in the end gets us nowhere.
Btw, do not worry about a banning of Anime in the United States, since it violates no obscenity laws, Anime is considered protected speech. You're more likely to see a ban on softcore pornography before Anime, and we all know its highly unlikely that that would happen in our lifetime.
One) stop with the name calling.It's stupid and wastes time.
Two) Never ever ever accuse anyone of being either open or closed minded. You don't know anything about any of the other people here, so it makes you look like an ass.
Three)Before you start calling someone else an idiot, make sure you check your post for errors. Atleast then, they can't call you a hypocritical idiot.
Four)BUSH CANNOT BAN ANIME!!!!! I have said this before. Study the american government people!!!
There is one section of congress that deals entirely with the media. Japan is one of our biggest trading countries. Do you really think we're stupid enough to really fuck ourselves over that much?
The only thing Bush can do is suggest that the more graphic shows and movies be shown at a time when it would be least likely for a bunch of little kids to be watching.
That's all for now and have a nice day.
About my mindset, did you come to that conclusion because I criticized the logic behind your previous posts? Or, is it that you are one whose logic comes from those who are prejudicial toward all who hold to a faith in the supernatural?
Just for this, I will register so that I can read some more of things like that. *wanders off to fill in the registration forms, unable to stop laughing all the while*
There are many anime's out there and you'd be stupid to only look at two and blame the whole thing. Some anime's are not all that bad. And it's pointless to argue over two of them. STOP TRYING TO TAKE AWAY OUR FREEDOM! US TEENS ARE HAVING ISSUES BECAUSE WE HAVE NO VOICE IN ANYTHING THAT INVOLES US, AND YOU TAKE AWAY ANYTHING THAT IS OK FOR US! And yes these comments are ammusing.
NOW LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY, BECAUSE EVERYTHING YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE TOLD IS COMPLETELY TRUE!
1)I agree that Bush is a dumbass and needs to be shot. HOWEVER!, he cannot ban Anime from America. It was not in the powers given to him by the constitution to censor the shows we can watch.
2)Bush can only strongly suggest that the more graphic Anime shows be moved to a later time when young children are less likely to be awake and watching TV. HE CANNOT TAKE IT AWAY!!!
3)Stop calling him a racist, prejudiced faggot. Please notice I spelled all three words correctly! Bush is from Texas, and he grew up a rich boy. He's just a stupid, ignorant, dumbass. He's not racist as if you paid any attantion to the news, you would now he vetoed the immigration bill. Also, he's not a faggot, because he's definitely against homosexuals and gay marriage.
ALTHOUGH IF YOU IDIOTS WOULD PICK UP A DICTIONARY EVERY NOW AND THEN, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT A FAGGOT IS A BUNDLE OF STICKS INSTEAD OF ANYTHING HUMAN RELATED!!!!!!!!!!
Well...I feel I have no possibly given you a little common sense, so I'm finishing this message up.
OH! One more important little note.......STOP BLAMING BUSH FOR ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTED HIM BACK INTO OFFICE IN 2004 AFTER 9/11 BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO! WE BELIEVED THE PROMISES HE GAVE ABOUT RESTORING ORDER AND KEEPING THE PEACE! WE ARE ALL AT FAULT FOR HAVING THIS MAN IN OFFICE, DO NOT ONLY BLAMES RICH WHITES.
AMERICA IS THE MELTING POT OF THE WORLD!WE TAKE SOMETHING FROM EACH NEW CULTURE JOINING US AND MIX IT IN. WE WILL NOT, HOWEVER, TAKE AN ENTIRE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE JUST FOR THE MEXICANS. LIKE OUR IRISH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, SCOTTISH, WELSH, DUTCH, AND OTHER LONG AGO IMMIGRANTS WE HAVE HAD TO WORK HARD TO ASSIMILATE TO THE AMERICAN WAYS. WE HAVE SPENT THE LAST 200+ YEARS CREATING OUR COUNTRY, AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE IT JUST FOR THE NEW IMMIGRANTS!
TO ANY IMMIGRANTS THAT FEEL THEY DON'T NEED TO LEARN OUR WAYS: LEARN TO SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE, LEARN TO LOVE OUR LAND, AND LEARN HOW TO PAY SOME FUCKING TAXES!
they are, and I'm amd as heck. :coolmad:
This person is obviosuly being bais about Japan. Japan has been upholding honor to this day. Even the Japanese Mafia ( Yakuza Setoshi ) uses the bushido system. No, and i mean no one, can call america itself Beautiful. It has absurd abuse of drugs, which i believe to be a more troubling matter to kids then anime has on them. Japanese filth you say? how bout i say American filth, damn parent. Thas why they got jobs and successful life. if you got a myspace, ima flame the hell outta ya! XD
all laws do is make things more unpleasant
in fact this country would be better if we did not have 2 things
law
and
government
as for chatholic and christian religeons there are also responsible for corruption is the worlds as welll as the usa. all those damn light religeons do is say that everything we like and do is a sin. this is why i hate Jehovah and hate Christ all they do is mess sutff up. and of course everything to some degree is gods fault.