You do realize, of course, that what you and D’Sousza are advocating here amounts to appeasement to an infinitely greater degree than anything coming from the so-called left: “Please, Mister Isalmofascist! Please stop attacking us! We’ll stop exercising our freedom of expression! We’ll reject modernity! We’ll join you in your cultural march back to the 12th Century! Honest we will!”

This reading of the foundations of Islamism isn’t merely incorrect, it’s basically a grotesque ROMANTICISM of our enemy: Islamist terrorists are NOT just people of strong traditional values lashing out at Western “decadence.” The foot-soldiers are barbaric killers infected by the psychopathy of fundamentalism; the leadership are cynical, calculating power-seekers who prop up the ‘decadence’ excuse to woo fresh crops of suicide bombers. Ceasing to produce sexually-explicit films won’t make them “leave us alone” any more than getting out of Iraq, sending more diplomats to Iran or chastizing the Israeli’s will.

You may find Mr. Ball’s film repellant, but he broke no laws in it’s creation and, more importantly, our system - the system wherein he can make a film some (likely to include myself, I haven’t seen it yet) find repellant and NOT be publically beheaded for his trouble - is worth fighting for… not least because it allows YOU to make something HE finds repellant in kind. But D’Sousza and those who parrot his work would give it all up to appease bin Laden and company.

Which explains why gays also make films ‘normalizing’ Islamofascism, communists, mass murderers like Che and Stalin, etc. It’s the classic ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ stance. And the common enemy of gays and their ‘friends’ is Judeo-Christianity. In his heart, Ball just knows that once he eliminates that pesky faith, then the entire world will be just one glorious bath house ‘glory hole’.

Don’t waste your time trying to warn him. If someone’s blinded himself to the point where child rape is no big deal, then he’s also deaf to the warning that - should he achieve his aim - the temperature of his glory hole will be a helluva lot hotter than any earthly sauna. And the attendants will all have cloven hoofs.

How about a “Hollywood Depravity” list: Che, heroin chic, incest, innocent terrorists, etc. A Pedo section can feature Ken Park, Kids, etc.

*Names, studios, awards, in highlight*

“Straight sex,” is icky and hypocritical, so there should be no standards.

It’s not particularly original and insightful, and made worse by Malibu millionaire libertines who’s lifestyle does not even work for themselves, pushing the same for the mass of America.

Teens will want to have sex, it is the goal of society to control and channel those desires constructively and through involvement of parents and a larger social network than immature peers.

“Rivers Edge” is a good portrait of the Lord of the Flies effect of leaving kids to themselves, and there is an opening for non-exploitative discussion of letting teens do whatever they want without guidance. Many of the over-scheduled teens are over-scheduled because parents fear the problems of peer networks unchallenged by parents/society, and so seek exhaustion to avoid inappropriate sex or other behavior.

But hey, let’s have shock the middle class, sleazy exploitation, and a constant criticism of the middle class as inherently corrupt.

“Why do they hate us? IT’S YOUR FAULT, YOU FUCKING DEGENERATES! Sorry if that’s not the answer you wanted to hear.”

Most of what Radical Islamism “hates” about America is really the responsibility of the idiots who most want to appease them. Most Americans are caught in the middle — depraved Arab fanatics on one side, depraved American fanatics on the other. It really is a culture war, and the American left doesn’t want to admit that they themselves are one of the sides in this conflict.

I remember years before 9-11, seeing a report about how the Islamic middle east really liked America (at least the people they interviewed) - except its’ immoral movies. Maybe 9-11 was people like Alan Ball’s fault.