WWLP Springfield: "Northampton Residents Address Several Issues"
At the scene of Thursday's city council meeting, Springfield's NBC affiliate WWLP briefly interviewed Adam Cohen from NoPornNorthampton. "...Northampton residents...came to tell the mayor they support a proposed ordinance to create a combat zone for adult-type businesses, away from schools, homes, and churches. Mayor Clare Higgins supports the creation of an adult business zone, but nothing was decided at Thursday night's meeting."
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And predictably ignored the opposing opinion...
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Yes, TV time is limited and it's hard to address the issues fully. Fortunately, we don't have that problem on the web. Have a look as we rebut some of the best arguments from the opposition we've seen to date: example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4.
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I cannot believe such uproar over so little, when you have happy go lucky porn light stores ('Oh My", etc) in the heart of downtow, who've worked without protest selling their wares. Move back to NYC and find a right wing Christian high rise...but that would be phallic porn symbolism too!!
Natick, MA, on YOUR STREET..number 69 actually, and nothing's happened yet...much ado about pornothing, eh?!!?
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Your arguments, both tired and overblown at the same time, have long been addressed in our sidebar on the left.
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Yes, fascists always have a cute answer for everything. It's called "sophistry."
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It is disappointing when porn advocates like "NohoResident" prefer namecalling and labeling to engaging with us on the facts.
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Get some facts on your site and I'll gladly engage them.
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We do. Almost 50,000 words of content in all. Start reading.
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I've read almost all of your propaganda. As I said above, the enemies of freedom have no shortage of cooked books to make their arguments for them. In an era when the Bush administration is aggressively pursuing obscenity laws against artists and chipping away at the rights of sexual and religious minorities your moralizing is in extremely poor taste. The amount of your content regarding zoning versus the amount of content critiquing pornography and its consumers for having "deviant" or "antisocial" tastes (read as: a secular replacement for the word "sinful") betrays your actual intentions. Everyone I've spoken to- men, women, gay, straight, queer, transgendered, rich, poor, etc.- recognizes neo-Victorianism when they see it.
Bottom line? Don't buy porn if you don't like it. And please- play up the fact that you want this in the poor folks neighborhood. It shows your true colors even more.
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It's no secret, we want people to choose to sell and consume less porn.
Relative to where the property owners live (the upscale suburb of Longmeadow), we are the "poor folks neighborhood". We resent the prospect that our money will flow to them, while we experience the bad impacts here in Northampton, while their environs (no adult business in sight, I checked) remain pristine.
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