Adolf Hitler, perhaps the most lethal despot in human history, advocated censorship with the following quote: "Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world. Public life must be freed from the stifling perfume or our modern eroticism."
Contemporary censors continue to use the same fascist argument in an attempt to impose censorship on us all, and to eliminate freedom in the process. Also, although modern-day censors may not, as a rule, physically torture, harm or kill anyone; their fanatical zeal to destroy the freedoms which make this country worth living in, is very much reminiscent of the Nazi reign of terror. As I see it, censorship must be crushed and contained, because it is just about as harmful to freedom as the Nazis ever were. (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in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and was later part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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