Green Sunshine
11-21-2004, 12:18 PM
Has anyone considered the FCC and its warped rules? If a casino advertises, they most post the number for Gamblers Anonymous. If a beer company advertises, they must tell you to drink responsibly. There is an unwritten rule that hard liquor can't even advertise at all on television. And cigarettes? Not only are they banned from advertising over the airwaves, but they must actually pay for advertisements which tell you NOT to use their products. Now why all this? The federal government knows what is good for us? The feds are trying to protect us? Well, then why in the world don't they ban military recruitment advertising? Like "Joining the Army may cost you your limbs, your head or your life?" I mean isn't it a much more obvious and immedite danger to be shipped to Iraq or Afghanistan than it is to gamble? Where's the protection there? They don't want to protect the youth because they need their pawns. It is disgusting and should be banned. If the army were a cigarette company, the FCC would force the army to show charred bodies and severed heads and new recruits with lost limbs. Where is our consumer protection? :cuss: