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Censorship presumptuous
I just learned that The Spokesman-Review has censored the Doonesbury comic strip last week and substituted Doonesbury reruns. Last week’s Doonesbury should have been a series of strips in which one of the characters is trying to get an abortion in Texas, while dealing with the recently passed abortion laws of the Lone Star State.
How could S-R editors make such a decision? How dare they presume to decide that they get to pick which viewpoints of a current political issue are acceptable for their readers and which views have to be kept from our sensitive eyes and minds?
If you’d like to see the comic strips that we need to be protected from, go to: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/ archive/2012/03/12. You’ll find those comic strips are far less disturbing than The Spokesman-Review’s draconian attempt to control which political views can be exposed to its readers.
Paul Luppert
Spokane