will the soon-to-be-released Warner Bros. film V for Vendetta violate the just-passed British law outlawing the "glorification of terrorism"?
As reported by
Etopia Media Entertainment News Network yesterday in an article entitled
"Confrontation brewing between real British Government, which wants to outlaw the "glorification of terrorism," and "V for Vendetta" film that glorifies terrorism against a fictional, fascist, British Government?", the British House of Commons has approved legislation outlawing the "glorification of terrorism," which may or may not affect the exhibition of a soon-to-be-released film from Warner Bros. Pictures,
V for Vendetta, which arguably glorifies terrorism against
a British Government, albeit an imaginary, cinematic one.
In the February, 2006, edition of
Vanity Fair, in an article entitled "R for Revolution," Michael Wolff writes:
"Indeed,
V for Vendetta is really about a…suicide bomber. V, the self appointed Karmic adjudicator, is the bomber. The suicide bomber is the hero. The superhero is the suicide bomber."
For more about, and (there are copious "excerpts") of, Michael Wolff's article in the February, 2006, edition of
Vanity Fair, see
"Vanity Fair's subversive 'V for Vendetta' piece (w/ poll)" on the
Daily Kos blog site.
"it would be for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether to bring a prosecution or not," according to a British Embassy spokesperson in Washington, D.C.
Etopia Media Entertainment News Network today contacted the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., in order to find out what the position of the (current, real) British Government was about the fictional depiction and possible glorification of arguably terrorist action against a (future, imaginary) version of itself.
A spokesperson at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., provided
Etopia Media Entertainment News Network with the following statement:
"On the issue you raised, it would be for the Crown Prosecution Service to decide whether to bring a prosecution or not. They would have to prove that there was the intention that others should be induced to commit terrorist offences or subjective recklessness on this point. Glorification without intention of emulation (or subjective recklessness) cannot constitute an offence."
more about the Crown Prosecution Service
The
Crown Prosecution Service is, in its own words, "the [British] Government Department responsible for prosecuting criminal cases investigated by the police in England and Wales."
The British Embassy spokesperson emphasized, in comments to
Etopia Media Entertainment News Network, that the Crown Prosecution Service is an agency that is "completely independent" of the British Government that, contingent upon approval by the House of Lords, has passed legislation outlawing the "glorification of terrorism."
a statement from the Prime Minister's office about the anti-"glorification of terrorism" legislation
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