I am a free speech advocate. I don't believe in censorship, I understand FCC regulations about cursing on the airwaves and I despise the idea that that those "media standard" regulations in many people's minds relate to real speaking in real life somehow. They also tend to believe it pertains to our telephone lines and cable lines, stereos and books.
Frank Zappa had an instrumental album - JAZZ FROM HELL - slapped, stickered and labeled with the ugliest black and white bullshit stamp of disapproval from the powers that whine.
There were no lyrics. the label reads "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics"
This is injustice, this is because he had the guts to put Al Gore and Tipper Gore in their place.
Freedom does not Evolve - This is not up for "debate"
This government document sounds sweet and happy, butterflies and smiley faces, but it is not.
Do you think Zappa would say free speech is an evolving concept? It's not an evolving concept unless you are trying to deprive people of clear human rights in this universe. We have the right to do what the fuck we want, when we want - and to talk, sing and dance about it. This comes from the fact that we didn't ask to be born, but yet we are here on this planet, alive.
So now we lean into the branch of "national security", Noam Chomsky, Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, the Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Ajax, Operation Northwoods, Operation Gladio, Wikileaks, all that shit where whistleblowers are uncovering the deepest darkest secrets that the
Consider this piece of simulated parchment and the words on it.
Listen, Holmes : the First Amendment is there not to protect the speech with which we agree, but the speech that we hate.
Do you have free speech? Do you feel like people will try to shout you down if you speak your mind? Are you protesting soldier's funerals? You are probably an asshole, then. I'm also free to steal your signs and call you an asshole. JESUS THINKS YOU'RE A JERK We dare you to press charges, Phelps.
THE TRUTH: you do have freedom of speech. No one can take it away, ever. Everything changes when you look at the world through the eyes of love and not the eyes of fear.
The eyes of love see us as one. Love understands each other.
The eyes of fear force us to hate one another, not to understand each other.
Be Excellent to One Another - Wyld Stallyns
We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Too many DiDis, not enough Dexters - Eric C. Klemm
One last word, it seems to me that the philosophies we really should be learning and following are not the ones that are being taught and followed by most of the people in the world. Aristotle, Plato, Confucius. and more recently, Thoreau, Ghandi, MLKing, Amelia Earhart and Lennon. The ones that broke it down and spoke with such simplicity that everyone might be able to understand. The truth.
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