Whether a financial siege works or not, vote against any politician who advocates censorship in any way, shape, or form; or form, join, or support any anti-censorship group, such as People For The American Way or Students Against Censorship.
Boycott any advertiser, merchant or corporation who support or give-in to the demands of moralists or morality groups. For instance, not too long ago, Phillip Morris products should have been boycotted because that corporation had given campaign contributions to pro-censorship, anti-everything politicians like the late Jesse Helms. Burger King should be boycotted for giving-in to the demands of Focus On The Family, or a similar irksome morality group; which demanded that Burger King should stop advertising on tv programs which the morality group considered offensive. There are many other examples of executive cowardice in giving-in to the demands of morality groups. If those of us who are against censorship boycott companies which give-in to the extortion of morality groups who advocate censorship and the curtailing of freedom of action and choice; then in the future executives would think twice before being used as instruments for narrow-minded moralists and morality groups to impose their extreme views on the rest of us. (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in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and later as part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust...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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