Saturday, April 18, 2009

Essay: "The Insidious Threat of Censorship", Part 18

Essay: "The Insidious Threat of Censorship", Part 18 of Several

  What can you do?:

       It is about time that people stop tolerating these so-called self-appointed  'moralists' and morality groups. If I won  $10 million from Ed McMahon, I would be willing to buy one-way plane tickets to Iran or other backwards theocracies for any pesky moralists, provided they promised to never come back again. As far as I'm concerned, most of these moralists qualify as terrorists, since they often hold Freedom of Speech and the Bill of Rights hostage. For the most part, these piss-ant moralists are like mosquitoes. If we let them run amok, they can wreak a lot of havoc on all our collective rights. On the other hand, if you step on them, they are likely rendered harmless.  (to be cont'd)
  [The original version of this essay first appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early  '90s and as part of my unpublished manuscript  "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]

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