Most Americans are against censorship. We do not like to be told what to do, but not enough of us care to do anything about the problem of censorship. The biggest trick is to get approximately 220 million complacent Americans off their collective asses and do something about censorship;before some of the freedoms we all tend to take for granted become lost, perhaps forever. I have devised a number of ways to essentially say "Up Yours!" to so-called moralists and censors. (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in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and later as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust...In Debt We Die" And Other Essays.]
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