Is Larry Flynt's Life In Danger

[romantico]

I mean, I am sure Larry has thought about this. Has he mentioned any threats?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Somebody shot him, paralyzing him from the waste down.

Yes, Flynt's life is in danger, and it has been for many years.

[Warpy]

2. He's a smut peddler with a history of vicious parodies of

the pious right. He's already been shot once. Of course he's getting threats. It's how he lives his life. I'm sure they barely register any more.

You can bet everything he knows is being held by one or more lawyers with instructions on how to release it all as soon as he dies.

[CookCountyResident]

8. Smut is right.

His kind of "porn" is the degrading kind.

[Truth2Tell]

9. Please elaborate. How is his "porn" more degrading than any other?

[guitar man]

3. probably

wouldn't be the first time. I bet he has some hard hittin' muthas for bodyguards and he's probably packin' heat himself.

[liberal N proud]

4. He has been living with the threat for many years

The fundies would take him out at any opportunity just for the business he is in. His new endeavor probably doesn't change his threat level much.

His people don't go nuts at some gut feeling like the bu$h regime and media do.

[pepperbear]

5. and his people don't create the circumstances for that ...

gut feeling either. :)

[Ian David]

6. He's already been shot once.

<snip>
Flynt married his fourth wife, Althea, in 1976. The marriage lasted until her death in 1987 — of drowning in a bathtub, possibly as the result of a drug overdose. On 6 March 1978, Flynt and his lawyer Gene Reeves Jr. were shot outside a courthouse during an obscenity trial in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Flynt has since been paralyzed from the waist down. It was claimed that evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton (sister of President Jimmy Carter), converted him in 1977, but after that attack, Flynt renounced Christianity.

On a program called "Talk Today" (Nov 9, 2000), Flynt responded to a caller who told him God would be his judge, "Well, I'm a total non-believer so this doesn't bother me at all." Later on, a caller reminded him that he had been a born again-Christian. Flynt replied,

I got over that. We're raised in a God culture society. This is all programmed into a child's mind at a very early age. People who are able to get deprogrammed are the more fortunate ones. People think you have to have God in your life to be happy. I know a lot of atheists who are compassionate, happy people. We need to live and let live in this world. Don't get me wrong; if religion helps you get through the day, fine. But don't impose your religious beliefs on other people.

More:
http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rants/1101almanac.htm

[npincus]

7. he'd better hire a food-taster

[slackmaster]

10. The probability that Mr. Flynt will die is 1

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