Jello Biafra obscenity trial 1987 

Chuloloc he speaks up for what he believes in

He was being persecuted by democrats, and he's a democrat. I'd say this is a portrait in idiocy.

@@isorokudono Is he a Democrat now? That would be news to me. But for the record, PMRC was bipartisan--it was run by Al Gore's wife but financially backed by a bunch of "Christian Right" Evangelical churches.

@@macdeus2601 he always was.

@@isorokudono No, he wasn't always, because I know for a fact he was a member of the Green Party at one point in the early 2000's. He was talking about running for their presidential nomination with Mumia Abu Jamal as his running mate for VP.

Well, sparkles13, that was the way TV news looked back then.. Quaint, eh?

@@privatenumber7243 Well, no, it likely looked a lot better when it was first broadcast. But, quaint, why not?

@@sparkles13 you're probably right. Have a nice day.

@@privatenumber7243 This broadcast has been taped on to a VHS and then copied many times. Each time you copy a tape, the quality degrades. The original broadcast had far better quality. Here's a video demonstrating the degredation. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nqy_hYDI0As.html

@@valurautakattila from what I remember from my T.V. Productions classes, and video, It's called 'drop-off'. But it's been 20 yrs, so I don't know.

yes we can

@@dia9221 14 year old girl dead kennedys fan gang 😈 💯

@@zoeyrodriguez1977 loving jello biafra is for life not just our teen years 🫀🥲😍

@@dia9221 Yep. Jello fan now at 14 and Jello fan until I die amen

He's said it's not meant to be prurient, and we all know how absolutely retarded it is to look at it that way. It's sex & horror married for the joke they are. The bigger disorder is figuring out how so many people get that wrong, organize, and maintain one of the worst views of anything I can imagine.

He ran for mayor at one point but retracted his application because he couldn't use his alias

He's one of the only sane people on the fucking planet.

@@JayDecayAE Even though his demeanour may say otherwise at times 😂😂😂

Passion adds clarity when appropriately applied.

He made more sense than most politicians in those days, too.

There's a hilarious warning on a video for Califorinia Über Alles. It says "The following material contains violent imagery taken from actual every day life. This program could be offensive to those individuals who prefer not to deal with reality. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eIqESwzCGg4.html

You spelled insufferable wrong

The Dead Kennedys will always be 1 of the greatest political punk rock bands ever. I'm grateful for Punk rock music and culture .....it opened my eyes and taught me a lot , in general . Still I'd say Jellos Lyrics and The Dead Kennedy music open-minded my eyes to a plethora of good to know intelligent info. To be aware, about our freedosm our God given rights to apeak of and share information move forward with a focused purposeful passion to change what's no good, for the greater good. I wish I got to see DK play live,.. ......

Michele Kirkham hell yeah. The Germs, X, Minutemen, Bad Brains, tons of punk bands that will never die.

Same LBGTQ lisp? 🤔

There are. Use your internet.

jspro100 I did the same and did get the insert in the mail along with some pamphlets about the whole censorship ordeal.

I got the poster when i sent that in. And not long after my friend had to send a copy of his ID to get the poster

Man when I bought the CD when I was a teenager I wish I had sent it to Buck said I figured Jello is just scamming me

I feel like there were more levels to the label then we were aware of. Like if there was some swearing on it stores would gladly carry it and sales would be great because it had distribution....but if something took more thought to interpret and judge and it wore the label then chains wouldn't carry it. If that was the case did each chain have their own inhouse yes/no system and would that have been shared by distributors with other stores/chains to the point where certain artists were being dropped from distro because of copycat wholesale purchasing.

When I was a kid, 90s-00s, there definitely was a luster to those albums that had the sticker on them. Especially before my tastes had fully been formed by the Ramones and other punk.

I'm the same age and did the same. I would purposely buy the ones they made the biggest deal over, just because it irritated me so much.

In the early 90's, if I had to choose between a CD with a parental advisory sticker and one without, I would always buy the one with the sticker

Sounds like a Hasidic Rabbi

I'd hate to see what SD was.

@toomuchjunkiebizness 79 there were hardly any people that new the difference.

@toomuchjunkiebizness 79 In retrospect i think i'd rather have 60 hz than higher res and slightly better colors

This would have been shitty even by 80s home VHS standards

Jello looks like he was filmed on a Game Boy.

Well, creating what you believe I can easily foresee, creating a world of fiction is just creating fiction, either that or speaking coherent philosophy like a nonfiction philosophy book for example. But there's bound to be situations where people will be afraid to say what they believe and with good reason. Man A could want to say, "who cares about what the Catholic priests are doing in their life," or, "9/11 was cornball," because maybe man A truly does believe that 9/11 was cornball. And maybe there's a good number of people who think the same thing, that 9/11 was cornball and man was the post-9/11 paranoid era ridiculous. But that's the thing, it's been two and a half decades past 9/11 and the American norm is still post-9/11 paranoid to this day. And now the new paranoia is the corona virus. Should man A say, "The corona virus is cornball" to anyone else in the public? Or I'll give a better example. Should man B say without being afraid, "9/11 was cornball," or "The corona virus is cornball," in a coffee shop? No, of course he should be afraid to say that, because the Starbucks management (or management of whatever the coffee shop) will kick him out. And the coffee shop management reserves the right to kick out customers for free speech as they are the company after all and they can and will make the rules. My place of residence used to be pitched up around Panorama City, California. The place is the slums mind you, not the worst but kinda close up there and they have this mall that enforced against T-shirts that they feel were sexually or violently obscene. Because of edgy T-shirts they could literally kick out customers. Blows donkey dick that their rules are that rigid? Of course it does, but they're the company and they can determine the rules and no one else in society is going to complain or disagree with the erosion of free speech (or any other freedom for that matter). There's the surveillance state suppression of the 4th Amendment, the unfair, kangaroo court-esque approach to trials suppression of the 6th amendment, the cruel and unusual punishment of Guantanamo Bay and the unfair bail money and sentences of the courts suppression of the 8th Amendment and no one complains or disagrees with any of those. You name the amendment to the Bill of Rights and it's been attacked multiple times and no one else disagrees with it and they certainly aren't willing to do something actively well thought out and effective against it. Most people aren't against authoritarianism, in fact agree with it. Here's an even better example. Should man C carry out man A's legacy by saying, "9/11 was cornball," to a cop? Technically either man A, man B, or man C or any other person for that matter, can say "9/11 was cornball," to a cop without being afraid of getting arrested as per First Amendment free speech except even that is debatable depending on the cop, the situation and often the state/locale you live in and including your finance as the cops favor the upper-class, not the poor-class. And the other thing is even if you weren't arrested for saying, "9/11 was cornball," to the cop, he's very likely going to put you on his police database list. Now you can argue that people should be able to say and create what they believe without being afraid but what should happen is much different from what will happen and what will continue to happen. It should happen that there's no disease, war, death, poverty, corporate pollution or economic divide. Doesn't mean it's going to happen.

@@pashadyne Yeah looks like he's Jello's dad.

..a living legend...

Z Aub recorded from an old school BW TV

The person with the ability to capture it to video had at their disposal some very old school equipment that saved it in back and white.

Marx Dudek That makes total sense actually. Guess I was kind of short-sighted.

***** A lot of crime has been reduced by invention, HD cameras. Almost all homes have them now. Also a lot of internet forums get the feeling are controlled, mostly by liberal globalist types. If you say anything even moderate you get ridiculed and eventually banned.

The D.K.s won, but they lost. When there's A Witch Hunt like this, the antagonist has virtually all the cards, the antagonist may lose the case, and the defendant found not guilty but, the damage has been done monetarily, they lost so much money defending themselves, if I'm correct they went bankrupt, and basically took away their right to make A living, so the antagonist got what they wanted. No more "Trouble" from those D.K's I believe one of the prosecuting lawyers said in an interview years down the road that, the D.K.s were actually good, in the context of expressing the rights of individuals, that the whole thing was A "WITCH HUNT"on the behalf of the prosecution, and their. "Benefactors".

Jello Biafra runs the best punk rock label out there and still plays music to sold out audiences. He's also collaborated with some of the greatest musicians in the world. What happened with Dead Kennedy's is that they broke up and the other band members sued him for the rights to the album's even though he wrote all the songs, did the art, produced the albums, and pressed them himself, they wanted more of a cut. They play without him, but they kinda suck. Check out Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine to hear his current band, and his record label is called Alternative Tentacles. His album he did with the band D.O.A. pretty much immediately after this trial was wrapped up "The Last Scream of the Missing Neighbor" is one of the best and most underrated punk albums ever made.

get mental help.

@@gumshake689 Whatever you say, Sigmund.

EXACTLY!!! Lol.

spg77777 You realize this was filmed before Afghanistan?

Ha, holiday in Cambodia reference. Nice.

@@Lat3xE4teR tq for noticing.. iconic tune… one day a movie similar to Apocalypse Now will be made with it as it's theme/motif ... I have a dream... and I dream in color. : )

Looks like at least eight generations of tape copy decay

Heck no. Somehow it’s been “aged” using a filter or something.

@@bimscutney1242 oh ok thanks

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I was a teen that year and agree. This resolution just makes me feel even older. It may have been done this way to avoid copy right laws too.

Recorded on a cheap VCR and degraded over the years, is what I'd think.

@@snewl5324 That seems possible, but the audio sounds fine and VHS would stay in color and generally degrade, but not look fairly clean while just losing color. There would usually be visual static and sometimes tracking errors too (remember those tracking controls?) That was my experience back then, Oh well, I suppose we will not know for sure.

All though it is shocking, here are two points: Life is shoking and kids need to see some visceral things in life as to not become shelterd. Sneaking peaks at dirty movies or horror flicks are one thing but seeing shocking art and potentialy disturbing imagery is also a pivotal part of life. Censorship is fucked. And, its not pornography its art.

@@dietdrano1059 Yes, but parents have the right to decide what they want their own children to watch or see. It's actually a call to get more information about contents, not less. Just like people like to see what's on an ingredient label before they eat.