Copland III

Yesterday, YouTube pulled all of the Eucharist desecration videos hosted there. Af course, this drought hasn’t lasted long. However, the fact that YouTube bowed to pressure from the zealots to censor free speech is simply unacceptable.

For your convenience, some of the best desecration videos and a sample of the zealots’ comments has been placed below the fold. However, back to YT’s idiocy for a moment. The community guidelines don’t mention anything about desecration. There’s only a generic:

• We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view. But we don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).

This is very ambiguous. In a way, a lot af evangelical videos could be seen as ‘hate speech’ as it demeans other religions (and atheism). So How can YouTube consider feeding a fucking cracker to a duck to be a hate crime? It’s MAD.

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Donohue: "I like to kill babies". OK, I made that bit up. Yes.

This week’s Enemy of the People is William A Donohue, the leader of the ultra-right-wing Catholic League. He and his band of mutant IDiots will generally come down like a hail of death threats on anyone who so much as dares to criticise any Catholic, or any Catholic beliefs, in public. Such as the ridiculous Webster Cook case: Donohue and his cronies tried to get him put in prison for kidnapping for taking a fracking cracker from a church. People aligned with his points of view (viz. demented fuckwits, as PZ Myers put them) also sent this young man death threats over a goddamned cracker.

This, of course, sparked the whole Crackergate debarcle. PZ Myers wrote a blog post about it, decrying the fact that it was, in his own words, a ‘frackin’ cracker’. Of course, that enraged the Catholic League, who immediately started a write-in campaign to have him removed from his job. Some sent him death threats: four in a day, which he described as a new personal record. All because he was rude to a bit of fucking bread.

Donohue, and his cronies, are really like their own sub-species of angry, grumpy tomatoes. Perhaps they should be given their own taxa. Or, perhaps, we can just hope Donohue ruptures an artery in one of his ridiculously loud rants about life, the universe, and everything non-catholic.

Webster Cook, the student responsible for the Crackergate scandal, has been impeached. In other words, he’s been removed from the student board.

He took a damn cracker out of a church. That’s it. The idiocy of the people in charge of educational and governmental institutions in some parts of the USA is deplorable.