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WARNING: this YouTube is of a VERY, VERY indecent comedy presentation and is NOT for everyone. I enjoy indecent humor in certain contexts (I LOVE the late Richard Pryor), but what I enjoy after the kids are sound asleep may be profoundly offensive to some Crablaw readers, whose varied sensibilities on such matters I respect and have attempted to accommodate more fully in matters of style in recent months.

This YouTube does not constitute normal Crablaw Maryland Weekly fare. There have been a lot of stylistic changes at CMW over this weekend but this YouTube is not among them.

In my view, the probative value of this tape as a sign of our times substantially exceeds its prejudicial effect of its offensiveness, to quote from a common evidentiary rule in my profession.

This tape is evidence of an assault, an act of malicious destruction of property (to wit the working papers of a performer) and disorderly conduct.

If you are offended by graphic sexual language, I have no means of "bleeping" out the offensive language, but at about 0:52-55 forward is where the most indecent content of the show stops, and the peculiar gang-up on the performer begins. There IS referential use of the F-Bomb thereafter but it is in the context of an after-the-assault meta-discussion of how far the show itself goes, not for gratuitous purposes or as part of the (then interrupted by young fascists) show.

This YouTube is not for the children, not in the least.



Jen of The News Blog on this assault:

There's no doubt that this was planned--it was a sold out show and over 80 ChristoZombies attended.

Other than thanking these retards for giving him material for his next monologue and book (and no doubt [...]loads of free publicity--he's already been on TV a few times (search Mike Daisey on YouTube)--I think he's re-opened the dialogue on the place of religion in public policy discourse in his own way, especially its role in "liberal" cities like Boston.

When it all boils down, a lot of "public policy" on tolerance in the US and on college campuses isn't about keeping angry mobs from burning down the houses of worship of unpopular minorities--it's about allowing a certain degree of intolerance by verbal minorities to be enshrined in public policy. Lip service to creationism, restrictions on sex education and contraception access, and blue laws of all stripes are all sleeping Nosferatus with spikes in their hearts, rumbling in the shallow grave of America's Puritan past.

When Jen used the word "retards" I think she meant "fascists," fascist being in reality the far worse insult. But I am not going to call a "Don Imus" on Jen, because she is helping to care for Steve Gilliard through an unbelievable health crisis and recovery. So upon her peace. While ChristoZombies is a bit derogatory, they were part of a mob that committed a crime, maybe several crimes, so "ChristoFascist wannabes" would have been more on target.

I hope some people get a couple weekends in jail for this.

In fairness, it should be noted that the vast majority of conservative Christians in metropolitan Boston (yes, there are such) had nothing to do with this assault, and many of them would support the vigorous prosecution of the offenders. I use the term "assault" here as a catch-all term for assault, battery or assault and battery; while Maryland has consolidated the crimes of offensive contact (battery) and imminently threatened or attempted offensive contact (assault) into one statute, I don't actually know how the Commonwealth of Massachusetts handles such charges.

When fascism takes over a society, fascism does not send every citizen/subject a certified letter noting the suspension of freedom of speech and of assembly and an option to opt out of the class of victimized slaves, as if it were a class action suit for an over charge on your cell phone bill.

And people tell me I am crazy and paranoid for being concerned about the rise of theocratic politics and an intrusive state.