European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes sunday october 13, 1985 William Safire kids deserve Protection Horn porn Rock profiteers i Sisol u listen More Curc Ful a to popular said a Public figure is ears Jpn. Because at ils Bestil is Worth of More scrums appreciation arid at in worst it is blatant drug culture pro he cited such lines in Sontis As. I get his with ,1 link help from my friends pointing out Thil the friends meant were Speed and and called attention to the Noi my Hubic promotion of a so in in the sky with i wrote that speech for vice president Spiro Agnew in 1970. And his slashing attacks on he permissive social attitudes of the Dikiy helped defeat such Liberal democratic senators us Albert Gore of Tennes see. Agnew s subsequent plea of non con Landete on a charge of accepting political payoffs somewhat dulled the cutting cd a of the social sermons he delivered but the impurity of he medium did nol Larnish the message. Tor a Lime much of the re Cord Industry backed away from due blk Cnoc narc drug lyrics. Here we arc 15 years later and Rock lyrics arc gelling examined again. This Lime however hinting i the pleasures of narcotics addiction Are As nothing compared to the explicit glorification of Kinky sex. At Senate hearings and in family news papers Duhs arc Reading for the first time the messages being blared into the minds of children by some of the popular groups. In the background of a Prince album a Singer delights in losing her virginity. In another Rock song incest is touted my sister never made love to anyone but me incest is everything it s said to Motley Crue specializes in extolling brutality toward women Wasp which insists it is riot As some fans say an acronym for we Are sexual perverts but innocently named after the popular insect snap the whip on sex. These Are not the effete efforts at effluvia hard to break old habits by fringe operators of the music Industry i Csc arc double Platinum Sellers. Some Well adjusted kids laugh it off but the values of enough others Are profoundly affected they wonder what s wrong with doing what seems to be so universally accepted of what s to be done about sex Vio in acc Sado masochism and satanism being sold to youngsters As we refuse to Anthony Lewis hum along with Well now i m Killin you Wal Chin your face turning Blue we Are faced with charges from record com Pany fat cats of being Bluenose is seeking to censor artistic expression. Legislation is out let s nut give smut singers a first amendment Pedestal. The parents musical resource Center work ing with the National Pat is trying to get the music Industry to regulate itself As the movie Industry has done bul some of the Leazier elements of the Industry resist. One proposal is to rate and Label each record so that the unsuspecting buyer would be aware. Some in the Industry say inc artistic integrity of inc album cover would be damaged by the requirement that the lyrics on the record be printed for the buyer or the buyer s parents to i am a libertarian when in comes to the actions of consenting adults and Hoot at busybodies who try to impose bans on w hat non Viola no grown up can read or say or do. With Complete consistency. I am anti libertarian when it comes to minors. Kids pet special protections in Law we do not execute a 13-year-old murderer and deserve Protection from porn Rex k profiteers. Parents who let kids buy or watch or do anything they Hani Are Don to give a Damn parents. The parents who care will risk the Wrath of i hair Chil Dren to say no to buying the products of the exploiters of hatreds setting an adult example by rejecting perfumes la bleed opium decadence and Poison. Step one is to lean on the record companies to adopt truth in Labelling. Printing the lyrics on the album covers which is the opposite of censorship. At those who refuse get angry. Write the stations that broadcast the smut singing organize a Boycott against their advertisers picket inc record store raise the roof at Stock holders meetings of the anti Parent companies. Encourage non conformist kids to rebel against the slavish acceptance of a puerile entertainment in pain. With a sense of the irony involved 1 Salute tire women who Are leading this fight among them Mary Hli Beth tip per Gore wife of the senator from ten Nessee who is the son of former sen. Al Bert Gore one of the liberals Spiro Agnew helped to defeat in the Campaign Reagan and rambo have identical foreign policies this is nol an invasion of president Nixon announcing the . Invasion of Cambodia. April 30, 1970. Enough could set things right on his own. They longed for rambo. But of course it is a myth. Reality is a this action docs not signify any i world in which no single actor can shape inulin on of our traditional commitment to events As he wishes a world of superpowers and religious Fervour and economic incr do Pendency. In deeds the president has had to adjust to reality he dealt pragmatically with the Twa hostage takers. But his rhetoric has nol come Down to Earth. The world court was such a convenient target in Reagan s rhetorical world of Power and unilateralism. Here was a Chance to work off the frustrations of contemporary International life by picking on an institution with no great forces to protect it. The excuses Given for the decision to renounce the court s jurisdiction were so threadbare As to approach the comic. To continue accepting the jurisdiction the slate department said would endanger our vital National could the spokesman have read that with a straight face i the stale depart ment announcing withdrawal from the compulsory jurisdiction of the world court oct. 7, 1985. The withdrawal from the world court was nol an isolated act. It carried Oul what Ronald Reagan has been teach ing inc american people about foreign policy since he became president and before As a candidate. We live in a world of enemies so we must be ruthless. We cannot be bothered with niceties of Law or commitments. We will act unilaterally. Others use terrorism so we must do the same. America won t take it any More. Those have been Reagan s themes. They matched the National mood. Ameri cans were tired of complexity and frustration. They longed for the simple world of the Frontier myth in which a Man Lough everyone the Corlyon knows what really court decided an Issue against the american position. It held that it had jurisdiction to hear Nicaragua s complaint about .-sponsored terrorism. And so inc administration walked out first Oul of the Nicaragua Case then out of inc world court altogether. Yes the United states May still submit some disputes to inc world court by agreement with the other parly. But what and in any event hat would i Mailer it is about As sad a political event As any we have had lately. Not Only for itself but what u represents. It represents the for paranoid Strain in american politics the tendency to blame conspiracies. Reagan was in that tradition when he and an idea that american leaders before him have worked to Advance for 80 years americans led the Way for 40 years in trying to build a court and a system of International Law. We have lived with in court for the last 40 years new one embarrassment caused by our own lawlessness has led creation to which we Tad � 1" parj1 and Why because we fear lawsuits no one thinks the soviet Union is about to us lawyers laughed and applauded a shame Lul sign of the popular mood. A cautious British commentator David Watt Drolc in the times of London that the Sprx cd was an example of populist Para Noia. It reflected he said american feel Ings of impotence hurl Pride isolation. An now those feeling. In he Hamis f pc Dent have done permanent damage to the weal that until Ronald Reagan we thought r America Law. 10 new York times news service Al
