{"id":123,"date":"2010-04-22T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:33:09","slug":"south-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2010\/04\/22\/south-park\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"wintertrees20100422.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blog Photos\/wintertrees20100422.jpg?imgmax=800\" alt=\"Wintertrees20100422\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Minion Pro';\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">I&#8217;m pretty angry about a lot of things in general, but today I want to talk about <em>South Park.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2010\/04\/20\/comedy-central-censors-south-park-episode-muslim-threats\/?test=latestnews<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Ya know I really enjoy the show. I&#8217;ve enjoyed ALL and I mean ALL of the episodes lampooning the various silliness of religion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Most recently I enjoyed the episodes where silly famous people were trying to harvest Muhammeds&#8217; &#8220;Anti-ridicule&#8221; force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">I applaud comedy central for airing the second episode albeit censored.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">That an AMERICAN radical islamic website essentially threatened&nbsp; the creators of South Park veiled though the threat was is completely unbelievable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Let me explain something to you muslim morons!<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Minion Pro';\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">This is a free country, not some woman hating theocracy!&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Minion Pro';\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">The same rights that allow you to speak your mind APPLY to everyone NOT JUST YOU!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Minion Pro';\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">You threaten someone in this country and you better pray that nothing and I mean nothing happens to the person or persons that you threatened. Because you&#8217;ll be at the top of the suspect list if those you&#8217;ve threatened come to harm.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Minion Pro';\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">MY RIGHTS are just as important as yours<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Minion Pro';\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">NOBODY forced you to watch South Park&#8230; or for that matter look at the cartoons of Muhammad. GET OVER IT! In the case of South Park&#8230; they made no attempt to capture or caricature Muhammads likeness AND THEY ADDRESSED that the RADICAL Islamic and apparently the NOT so radical islamic groups would have a problem with the mere mention of your prophet.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Presumably you people came to this country because you WANTED to enjoy the freedoms that we as a people enjoy in America.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">If you don&#8217;t like that I&#8217;m free to make fun of Muhammad then I suggest that you go the HELL back to whatever third world cesspit you came from.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">I also feel it my duty to point out a couple of other things that you people clearly don&#8217;t get about being in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Minion Pro';\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">I as a citizen am DUTY BOUND to protect your right to say anything you want to say. EVEN IF I disagree with you with every fibre of my being. BY THE WAY you&#8217;re under the same obligation to me if you&#8217;re a Citizen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Minion Pro';\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">If you feel it&#8217;s necessary to try to harm me or my kin because you disagree with what we say or think&#8230; You should be prepared for US to defend ourselves in the most vigorous way. I sincerely hope that you are smart enough to realize that this is not a threat&#8230; THIS IS A PROMISE! A World war II Japanese military man is credited with saying something like &#8221; were we to invade America the weapons arrayed against us would be more numerous than blades of grass.&#8221; You should probably bear that in mind before you decide to attack America again.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">I don&#8217;t particularly like religious nut jobs in general. I really don&#8217;t like religious nut jobs that offer ultimatums like \u201cconvert or we will kill you\u201d.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">You should probably be aware that most Americans take a very dim view of people that attack Civilians or civilian targets. We Americans remember 911 and the brutally slow beheading of 26 year old Nick Berg vividly.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">I&#8217;ve personally got no pity in my heart for folks who were Waterboarded or embarrassed at Abu Ghriab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Bottom line, Don&#8217;t you DARE try to force your beliefs down my throat&#8230; I&#8217;ll afford you people the same courtesy.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Cross that line at your own peril.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty angry about a lot of things in general, but today I want to talk about South Park. http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2010\/04\/20\/comedy-central-censors-south-park-episode-muslim-threats\/?test=latestnews Ya know I really enjoy the show. I&#8217;ve enjoyed ALL and I mean ALL of the episodes lampooning the various silliness of religion. Most recently I enjoyed the episodes where silly famous people were trying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2010\/04\/22\/south-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;South Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}