A while back, I wrote of the effects of a lobbying organization’s small numbers on the American People at large. That group, the Parent’s Television Council, had managed to begin a steamrolling of the First Amendment by the FCC through its paper campaign against CBS and the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show (which, I remind you, was offensive not for Janet Jackson’s floppy boob but because the show SUCKED.).

Well, it looks like they were only the start.

I now introduce you to Tupelo, Mississippi’s pride and joy- the American Family Association.

Who are these people, you ask? Well, they’re the latest group to decide what is and is ot appropriate for we simple viewers to watch on television. In August, they announced on their website that they would begin a campaign against a target so enfarious, so indecent that it shouldn’t be allowed on television- at least, not before 10 PM.

And what is this target, you may ask? What has so rankled this group?

9/11.

That’s right, 9/11. This is the incredibly well-made documentary by two French brothers and a FDNY firefighter whose entire house managed to survive the WTC collapse on Sept. 11. This moving, no-holds-barred film managed to capture video evidence of some of the most horrific acts of monsters followed by the bravest acts of humanity I’ve ever seen. The group has promised to put the “full efforts” of its 3 million plus members (their numbers, natch) into protesting the airing of this documentary, but it’s not for what you may think.

It’s not for the horrific imagery that the documentarians managed to catch truly by “luck,” though such a word would hardly normally apply. It’s not the subject matter at all, actually.

It’s the language.

CBS, rightly so, has decided that when this documentary airs (which it has now done three times as of this writing) it is to be aired unedited, and uncut. This means that firefighters can be heard using words such as “shit” and “fuck” as the events progress. They speak, as any of us would speak in that situation.

The AFA, apparently, has taken it upon themselves to see that this documentary not air last night in its unedited form. Fortunately, they failed. However, they have claimed that they would begin the protests today.

It seems, however, that this may have an effect that this group may not have predicted. It seems that the backlash has begun.

Last night, I watched the film in its entirety. I was moved by its honesty, and I was humbled once more by the sacrifice that so many made that day. Then, I was angered. I was angered that five years later, we still haven’t gotten the bastard.

I was angered that we’ve so monumentally bungled finding him while we let our efforts in the Middle East go to Hell in a handbasket.

I was mostly angered that the very freedoms that we cherish that were attacked that day five years ago haven’t been taken away by Extremists from half a world away, but have been usurped rather by religious zealots of a different cloth.

Make no mistake, our efforts in fighting threats of terror remain to this day the most important battle we will fight. But can we please, for the love of God, stop doing everything we can here to help along the removal of the very freedoms this country was founded upon?

Oh, and if Donald Wildman, head of the AFA, manages to find this through a websearch? Just based upon this alone as an example of your tolerance for Christian values?

Go to Hell, you unimaginably dense fucking prick.

Out.