ARTISTIC FREEDOM HAS LIMITS LIKE ALL ELSE

Plato wrote in his book, THE LAWS, that the ancient Egyptians rigidly required that its artists, artisans, and scribes conform to accepted forms and motifs for over 10,000 years. The wisdom of that practice is evidenced in the current Sony-Korea crisis, which jingoists will use as a pretext to fan the flames of war. Our First Amendment did not protect Paul Robeson, WEB Dubois, H. Rap Brown, did it? The so-called McCarthy-era communist scare and purges, and the House's Committee on Un-American activities did not care about any First Amendment, either. Artistic freedom has its limits, or it should, as unrestrained it can be lethal!