Reuters reports the FCC is investingating indecency from Athens 2004:
The Federal Communications Commission has asked for a tape of NBC's broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics after it received at least one indecency complaint.
An FCC spokesman Friday could neither confirm nor deny whether the agency had begun an investigation into possible indecency. The Aug. 13 tape-delayed broadcast featured a pregnant woman and a man and a woman performing interpretative dances around the history of Athens and Greece. According to photographs on the Athens 2004 Web site, the ceremony also included statues of naked men, though it wasn't clear whether those were broadcast.
So why did 13 GOP Senators already cosponsor and pass S.427 praising the outstanding Athens games "particularly the officials from the Ministry of Culture" in staging "a great Olympic Summer Games in a manner that embodied the legacy, ideals, and values that Hellenic culture has given the world."?
Yahoo's third
most emailed photo (lets's make it #1) is of men portraying
Kouros statues from the opening ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympics. Another possible target of FCC investigation is
here.
Kos did a main page story over the weekend when the story first broke. Please help give this story a higher profile so that US Senators can rebuke the FCC and give affirmative statements saying the United States supports free expression. When the FCC investigates images of even the most venerated icons of other cultures for indecency the freedom of speech enshrined in the First Amendment of our Constitution becomes a worldwide joke.
S.427 , a resolution congratulating Greece and all involved on the "outstanding" Athens games, was proposed by Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) along with primary cosponsor Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), both Greek Americans. Thirty-eight other Senantors cosponsored S.427 praising the entirety of the 2004 Athens Games. So what is going on at the FCC? The Senate Commerce Committee is charged with oversight of both the FCC and the USOC. Please contact them and ask why any investigation was ever considered.
Other contacts to consider:
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) Chairman Commerce Committee
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) Member Commerce Committee
Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Sponsor S.427