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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 06:34 AM
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Is This Gratuitous Violence?
In response to Lieberman's request to ban videos you stated that they only ban videos that show hate or gratuitous violence.
They banned this video of mine and I ask you - is the violence in this vid gratuitous or does provide context to it's theme?

http://www.dailymotion.com/lame54/video/x268em_guns-n-roses-welcome-to-the-jungle_politics

(From my youtube page)
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
04:30
bush's oil war
Tags: guns roses welcome to the jungle bush iraq war oil peter anderson impeach
Views: 326,798
Comments: 1,095
Rating:

858 ratings
Added: July 13, 2006, 12:49 AM
Broadcast: Public | Rejected (content inappropriate)
Raw File: jungle_0001.wmv
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 06:35 AM
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1. No, it is not gratuitous.
This is gratuitous violence...
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unapatriciated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 07:54 AM
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2. What is gratuitous violence?...
1. gratuitous violence

Gratuitous violence is violence for the sake of being violent. Usually assocciated with low budget movies and cult videogames. Given without need, often unrealistic.

Here are some examples

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Violence that doesn't make sense except to entertain without real social redeeming value
Your video, although entertaining, has value by exposing the administrations intent for this illegal war
it is not gratuitous - it is informational
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unapatriciated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 07:55 AM
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3. ...
Edited on Thu May-22-08 07:55 AM by unapatriciated
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