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Subject: 
Help defend the artist! (was Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!)
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Date: 
Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:49:49 GMT
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I would encourage people disgusted by Fionnula Bourke's article to email
their grievance at:
icFeedback@mrn.co.uk

my response:

In your article "Councillor in child porn probe" Dec 29 2002, by Fionnula
Bourke, you report the Brick Testament as a site "in which Lego characters act
out twisted biblical tales involving rape and violence."

Had Ms. Bourke bothered to research this site, she would have found the nudity
and violence warnings are put forth as warnings, not for sick enjoyment as Ms
Bourke would imply.  I would refer Ms Bourke to Mr. Peter Lyle's report of the
site:

http://www.thereverend.com/brick_testament//press/independent_01_12_23.html

Readers appreciate objective reporting with facts to back it up.  There is no
need to bring down the work of an artist just because Pat McLoughlin viewed
the site.

Felix Greco, MS
LEGO enthusiast



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Help defend the artist! (was Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!)
 
(...) I agree completely, I'm no authority but I would suppose that what's in the BT is no more so that in the Bible. That reference was ment to discredit that person in question and the BT was used to paint a futher despicable picture on the back (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
  Re: Help defend the artist! (was Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!)
 
(...) This is what I had to say... I have been a LEGO® enthusiast since childhood, and I find Fionnula Bourke's report to be offensive in that it attempts to link "The Brick Testament" with the likes of child pornography. Brendan Powell Smith (the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!
 
(...) stronger bastions of respectable journalism in the UK. In any case, I sent the following letter to the editor. It's couched in the usual over-assertive letter-to-the-editor style that seems the only way to get past the sub-editors. to: (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)  

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