Thursday, July 18, 2013

The Empire Strikes Back!

A State Police sergeant, (click here) incensed by the controversial Rolling Stone magazine cover of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has released dramatic photographs of the apprehension of the accused terrorist to a local magazine without permission from his agency.

The pictures, taken by Sergeant Sean P. Murphy, a State Police tactical photographer who was working during the massive manhunt on April 19 in Watertown, first appeared on the website of Boston Magazine Thursday evening. Boston.com and other media outlets posted them afterward.

Murphy told the magazine that the photos, showing Tsarnaev bloodied and with a police sniper’s laser-projected bead on his head, display “the real Boston bomber. Not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.”...

But, I mean there is a trial last I heard. A magazine cover? You've got to be joking. A police sergeant has some since problems with control. We don't need it. Really. Most of us are on the side of the law enforcement over this. But, we also believe in freedom of speech. 

Everyone needs to calm down. A magazine cover is not treason, okay? I sincerely believe Rolling Stone took on the topic in a way that hasn't effectively been approached yet. PREVENTION. I think they did a great job. I get the feeling as though 'the establishment' has a real problem with Rolling Stone for absolutely no reason at all. They have a readership. 

What kind of feelings does "Penthouse" bring to mind by the way, because, Texas law makers believe women's health isn't important enough to have safe abortion clinics. I find it strange that "Maxim," "Playboy," "Penthouse," and XXX.com isn't regulated into oblivion considering the impulse to have sex might result. I am sure if an army of women confiscated every sexual magazine in the military there would be mass exotus. 

So, perspective is everything. It is realizing the USA allows Freedom of Speech that is the tough part, I suppose. And tolerating it knowing everyone's rights relies on the same foundation of freedom. A magazine cover? What is going on already?

I've got no grudge against Alyssa.  She is a very pretty girl. But, oddly enough there are women who might be offended by that very picture. Go figure.