A Good Cause
Jeff Duperon
A GOOD CAUSE
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the issue of whether public funding
to an artist can be linked with the idea of whether the art is 'decent.'
After the Robert Mapplethorpe "scandal" not so long ago, Congress passed
a law that for an artist's art to receive public money via the National
Endowment for the Arts, it must be deemed decent.
NPR Morning Edition this morning, Nina Tottenberg said that if the
Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of NEA. Then,
there's the question of Congressional funding: Funding for NPR / NEA &
PBS
This petition is being passed around the Internet.
Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for the
NEA, NPR & PBS. Please keep this petition rolling. Do not reply to me.
Please sign and forward to others to sign. If you prefer not to sign
please send to the e-mail address indicated below. Thanks.
This is being forwarded to several people at once to add their names to
the petition. It won't matter if many people receive the same list as
the names are being managed.
This is for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a worthwhile expenditure of
$1.12/year of their taxes, a petition follows. If you sign, please
forward on to others. If not, please don't kill it - send it to the
email address listed here: wein...@blue.univn
<mailto:wein...@blue.univn
PBS, NPR (National Public Radio), and the arts are facing major cutbacks
in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending
costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe
that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a
portion of funding for something which is seen
as not worthwhile.
Currently, taxes from the general public for PBS eqUSA Today/Gallup poll
indicated that 76% of Americans wish to keep funding for PBS, third only
to national defense and law enforcement as the most valuable programs
for federal funding. Each year, the Senate and House Appropriations
committees each have 13 subcommittees with jurisdiction over many
programs and agencies.
Each subcommittee passes its own appropriation bill. The goal each year
is to have each bill signed by the beginning of the fiscal year, which
is October 1.
The only way that our representatives can be aware of the
base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by
making our voices heard.
Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends if you
believe in what we stand for. This list will be forwarded to the
President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States,
and Representative Newt Gingrich, who is the instigator of the action to
cut funding to these worthwhile programs.
*If you happen to be the 150th, 200th, 250th, etc., signer of this
petition, please forward a copy to: <wein...@blue.univnorthco.edu.
This way we can keep track of the lists and organize them. Forward this
to everyone you know, and help us to keep these programs alive. Thank
you.
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JAllen97
FYI:
The Supreme Court has ruled on this case (NEA et al. v. Finley [No. 97-371]).
Last week, the Court held basically that Congress could condition NEA grants to
artists on a decency requirement.
See URL at http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/supct.June.1998.html
for full text of the opinion and dissent.
This post is included merely for accuracy's sake; it is not a comment on the
efficacy or on the soundness of the petition.
Jon Allen
george traynor
In article <199806301610...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, jall...@aol.com
says...
>FYI:
>
>The Supreme Court has ruled on this case (NEA et al. v. Finley [No. 97-371]).
>Last week, the Court held basically that Congress could condition NEA grants to
>artists on a decency requirement.
Good! Karen Finley, as well as some of the other whiners that are out there,
are of the attitude that they are constitutionally ENTITLED to a government
subsidy. What bullshit....
And if they don't get it, then they sound like a bunch a crybabies, crying
"foul" and "censorship" because they didn't get their own way. Well, nothing
could be further from the truth. If people like Finley want to shit all over
themselves and then call it art, then they can pay for it themselves. It's time
the government gets out of the art business.
george
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