Perhaps some of you are right about allowing people on MOPO the freedom to be complete idiots.
I probably acted too hastily in my seconding Rod be removed from MOPO as this was the second post of his this week which I found offensive, ignorant and showed a total lack of humanity. In the future I may say or do something stupendously grotesque as well. I hope you will forgive me in advance of that day. Till then I'll be curious as hell to see where the line is finally drawn with this bozo. Glenn T. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Martin To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT OKAY HOW MUCH TIME IS APPROPRIATE? Im for free speech also.... and when I hear thers a Nazi ralley... my answer is to not attend it or go and stand ther as in just feeds the hate.... so taking people off the list because they like to be biggots or ant jew... doesnt stop the same... what I think turns people hearts is to be educated and learn there are many grey areas in life.. But nothing surpasses Love and peace and understanding amony all peoples As far as pamdering recently passed artist for the sole purpose of commercializing of the hardship or death in my opinion is just tacky... In my case just before mr Jackson died today.. I spoke to a magazine dealer that I wanted to buy monster mags , beatles and he said I have some Jacksons stuff.... well years ago he offered them and I have soem " the jackson story" however I told him today I tried to sell some to the Motown museum in detroit and they didn sell. yet 1 hour later Michael died.. and I thought.. well now they would sell... there were pallet full.. will I sell them???? NO...... why??? - respect........when Linwood Dunn died I knew his Daughter and knew I could get all kinds of stuff includeing the fire engine model from Its a mad mad mad mad world...... and so I didnt call............ another dealer bought it..... same with Carson stuff and I happen to have a standee of Ed Mcmahon ive had years.... _ NOT for sale............ If I had farrah... and earlie r I was sent a email with all the farrah posters...... NOPE- After they have been gone awhile its ok in my opinion.. But there needs to be a period of allowing respect to rule...... saem withe the Family when people die they need time as they are vulnerable because they have had loss... these dealers that go in while the family is upset are not being honest or fair in my opinion. However each dealer has there own set of standars and should not consider mine as a Rule of thumb. Ive lost many many many deals because I would not inquier and others did. as far as joking about death.. My mom and I and brother made all kinds of death Jokes as she was dieing in a Hospise and found it a great experiance to be holding her hand as she took her last breath... I was very lucky to have that experiance... so yes Humor helps when times are stressed and sad... [email protected] wrote: GUYS, I agree with Franc 101% in his comment below. Yes Rod was ghoulish, distasteful and almost shocking in posting such memorabilia mere hours after Jackson dying. (Others may have felt it was scalding black humor especially given how the Mexican Bordertown the quality of his buttons) But banning an individual for poor judgement and behavior only creates our own version of the OX BOW INCIDENT. And truly how much time IS appropriate before posting memorabilia of a dead celebrity? I presently have a couple of rolled Farrah Fawcett posters from the 1970's that came with a collection of 70's posters? I just got through shooting them and then she rudely up and died. Now I ask, should I wait a day, a week, a month? Did everyone pull listings off Ebay of their JAWS posters when Roy Scheider died? Who here didn't snicker at a "what wood doesn't float some 30 years ago?" Or when one found out Ronald Reagan died who among us didn't wonder out loud "How could you tell?"...........never mind the infamous "Teddy I think I'm pregnant......We'll we'll cross that bridge when we get there or finally lighting a match stick then zig-zagging in front of you ...LOOK RICHARD PRYOR ON FIRE. Hell! Mr. Pryor himself LOVED that joke and used it to brilliant effect in his post-freebase concerts. No, outlawing poor taste on MOPO is wrong because then only outlaws will have poor taste or taste bad.........good grief I sound like GW43. In a message dated 6/25/2009 4:49:10 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: As for the Mexican lobby card king, I don't agree at all with what he said. It was tacky and tasteless but I disagree even more with those who think censorship is the way to go. We live in America, not Iran. If you feel strongly about it, don't bother opening this guy's e-mails. FRANC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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