Republican: Scripts need reviewing/movie prompts...

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more: http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070126/NEWS/701260363

Republican: Scripts need reviewing
Movie prompts lawmaker's film incentive idea

By Mark Schreiner
Raleigh Bureau Chief
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Raleigh | Citing the controversy surrounding the Dakota Fanning film Hounddog, the leader of the state Senate Republicans says he wants the government to review scripts before cameras start rolling in North Carolina.

That system, said state Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, would apply only to films seeking the state's lucrative filmmaker incentive, which refunds as much as 15 percent of what productions spend in North Carolina from the state treasury.

"Why should North Carolina taxpayers pay for something they find objectionable?" said Berger, who is having proposed legislation drafted.

[Lautremont]

1. Well it's a good thing no North Caroliners find the war objectionable.

They're paying for that, after all.

[katty]

2. yeah-killing and prisoner abuse is acceptable, moral 'behavior'

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. Prior restraint. Unconstitutional.