Random Humiliation = Social Commentary
Great news for social commentators. In New York, you’re free to harass, mock and humiliate citizens at random, chase them with threats of unwanted physical contact, and make money off it, as long as it vaguely resembles social commentary. Anti-American commentary in this case.* Idiot judge tosses Borat lawsuit:
In the movie, Lemerond, a Dartmouth College graduate and financial analyst, is shown running and yelling “Go away!” as Borat chases him in an attempt to hug strangers.
The judge conceded that the movie “employs as its chief medium a brand of humor that appeals to the most childish and vulgar in its viewers.” But she said the movie, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” also attempts an ironic commentary.
“The movie challenges its viewers to confront, not only the bizarre and offensive Borat character himself, but the equally bizarre and offensive reactions he elicits from `average’ Americans,’” she wrote.
Lemerond lawyer Eric Hecker said the ruling would be appealed.
“We think New York law is clear that a corporation like Twentieth Century Fox is not entitled to pluck an otherwise anonymous citizen out of a crowd and subject him to public humiliation in order to make a buck,” he said.
Here’s an idea. Howzabout someone get a video camera and start threatening to hug idiot judges. Maybe try to find out what they have under their robes. Given the personal failings some judges have exhibited lately, and idiotic decisions they have made, sometimes with devastating and even deadly results, it seems like a reasonable form of social commentary. Any randomly chosen judge will do.
In other judicial idiocy worthy of biting social commentary:
It’s the predatory perversion, stupid
* Anti-Kazakh, too. Random exercises in individual humiliation without consent on two continents aside, Sacha Cohen is a brilliant satirist. Hence the “Borat Says” link under “Vital Functions” at right.
Topics: justice
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:45 pm on Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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April 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
What is bizarre and offensive about not wanting to be touched by a nutball stranger? I find the judge’s so-called thinking processes to be bizarre and offensive. She’s obviously never been accosted on the street, as I have, by a schizophrenic street bum wanting to get into her car.
April 6th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
You know, this is what Tasers and pepper spray are good for.