Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The BY BOB CRAFT most susceptible They are here. The pedantic one of these blac gnomes rise from their rusty tombs to blood, declaring mischief again in the world of men. The KNOWLEDGE,i silver buckles of their shoes are brightly The ignorarr shined, their severe faces are set with either never seen that dangerous look common to those wits about him t who have God's work to do. about. The film These second-rate men and superior barbarians have eyes the twinkle as they shine their blunderbusses preparatory for their attack on civilized men. In the co;d night in which they live they find solace for their limited thinking and their war cry splits the blackness, "All men shall know our beloved Darkness!" And so, after a brief interval of pray er, they mount their blindered horses, wish each other the best of good fortune 0 and depart unto their ways. The fly down the roads of Ignorance and Repression, their horses' hooves sparking fire against the cobbiestones. They stop only at a public gibbet to happe relish the sight of the rotting bodies of ol d er past victims; Henry Miller, D.H. Law- magisl rence, D.A.F. Sade. They laugh and as the night is cold they warm themselves from flagons of hot Dr. Pepper. They continue onward, reining their Obs horses for a moment in reverence at the exist o imposing sight of the keep of the Arch emoti4 Duke of Comstock. They ride onward at the gallop and approach the Gates of the Lands of Cen- dogmal sor crying, "Ho, the gatekeeper! We righteo have come to do the bidding of our ever Council and of our God." And so, they go without the gates objec and curse the sun for its light for they are not, in truth, used to light. They put on their disguises, so they will not be I k seen for the miserable toadys that they are. Some put on the aspect of Supreme of me Court Justices, some don the robes of wish judges of state courts and still others . would must be satisfied with the garb of small time cops, sheriffs and District Attor- base neys. whetb These villains check to see that their that bodkins are sharp and their statues are in obsci order. They check their lists of victims minds and there is a little quarrelling over who lewd will dispatch who. This is settled and they depart sever- themn ally to attack, not boldly like men, but in the night like the craven cowards that they are, hiding behind the badge and So the gavel. that They make sure when they ford the rivers coming unto the courtry of porno Thought that their flint and tinder are the g kept dry, for there are books to burn, Purita films to set ablaze. and b And so they come among us, garbed not as we, nay, garbed as Officials of the ' State, bedecked in Imperial Purple so hallu that the outcry may be less from the people. Even now, the first casualties are I . being reported. In Georgia, that state f@ Rider to heathens and Goths, geheratic kguards has drawn first his sexua hat the film, CARNAL ;obscene. It lo is that ruled this has man bec the film or has not the the last s > know what the film is dominat ixplores one man's de- to a cha Efougjt% BSCENITY... Cenity is whatever is to shock some y and ignorant rate. - Bertrand Russell :enity and witches ly in the minds and >ns of those who in them, and neither ic judicial dictum nor ks vituperation can give to themn any ive existence. - heodore Schroeder kow that the wiser sort i will consider, and I hat the ignorant sort - learn, how it is not the ess or homeliness, tr of words or matters, - - nakes them foul and ne, but their base filthy conceits, or intents that handle - Sir John Harrington we can dismiss the idea iex appeal in art is graphy. It may be so to - -y Puritan, but the grey i is a sick man, soul >dy sick, so why should bother about his einations? - D. H. Lawrence .LUM'S S Draft Roast .2 Fish &4 OPEN 11:00 AM 'I .Mon. 2005 GreE In Five ;At The >n through an examination of CONY. It is a sE I relationships. that has somett never have faller )ks into the reasons why this moronic Georgia omes what he is revealed as in Oh, but isn ,ene. He has degenerated from seized print bein ing, blustering bully of women of a jail in a hick racter from Genet's THE BAL- day night, the it .ltor fe ... AND CE In the long rt the censor and t have always lo - A.W.C Literature sh suppressed mere offends the mor censor. ... Restr thought and free most danger, subversions. It un-American ac most easily d - Wlliam -- The first c - progress is the censorships. -------- - Geoge If we thir II regulate printin rectify mannei -- regulate all re< pastimes, all thi to man. John J Don't joi burners. PECIA L 3eer I?ee f C'h ips IL 12:00 PM S:it. n Street Points Gate nsitive film and a film retarded deputies drinking cheap booze ling to say. It should and pinching the behindsof 17-year-old i into the hands of the girls run in on a hitch hiking charge, get court system. ting thrills out of a slight glimpse of t it easy to see? The Ann- Margrets breast and buttocks as ; run in the back room they act out the very scene that they Georgia town on Satur- watch. nbecilic sheriff and his Except for a slight challenge from Southern California in recent years, Georgia has always been the most back - ward, ignorant and barbarous state in the Union and so perhaps some excuse can be offered, for, after all, they are heU only being consistent. But hard news blows from the north. Another -dagger has found a mark. It comes doubly hard for it is from my homeland, Virginia. NSORSHIFPR This news comes not from Lee Coun ty or any of those close down to Ken tucky in the panhandle. It coe from sAlbemarle County. Indeed, in the iohsr shadow of Monticello and that of Mr. he inq sitor Jefferson himself. St. Behold: Albemarle County Com monwealth's Attorney Charles Haugh and Albemarle County Sheriff George Bailey have declared that Francisco Goya's THE NAKED MAJA is obscene and that it will no longer be "legal" for ould not be anyone in Albemarle County to offer ifor sale a reproduction of THE NAKED tn code of thetMAsAp iction of free '.g Sheriff Bailey, according to THE speech is the MCAVALIER DAILY, the student news tus of al paper of the University of Virginia, "has he* letu it be known via the press and net work newscast that the representation t tha coul of pubic hair per se is obscene in Albe efeat us. mare County." theThe good sheriff does not stop there, cn however. Oh no. On July 3, Haugh and Sheriff Bailey advise Albemarle County storekeepers that they would be liable onditon ofto "arrest and prosecution" for the sale removl ofof "'Playboy." "Penthouse" and other such magazi nes of the genre. - An Sheriff Bailey has reported that all stores have complied with his request Bmwrd Shaw ~ and it is impossible not to see him smile Ne as he reports that one has removed even Smore than the necessary magazines "to ik we must be on the safe side." g, thereby to Sheriff Bailey said that he was "very peased and happy" over the reactionary rs, we must ruin Cun. nd ,it shadow of andnthe loadthto r Beld: Albh .Speme Cout Com-h unleashed ttre such as h Hs. at is delightful More chilling than Sheriff Bailey's Bglee over his new-found power is the way he performs The Pontius Pilate Iton Maneuver, "It is not for us law enforce ment agents to make laws--we only enforce them." I was only following ni the boomk ~ orders, I was onlu following order, th E phshaaertf ain familiring.t H CAVA irs DAmendmt sude fews paeperofe nieiy e here,na,hasor es et but nwnih the flint and tet-i of.,..,.. ~ hi pbckhi erts soseei le mal Cut . 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