"Joy and pleasure are as real as pain and sorrow and one must learn what they have to teach. . . ." -- Sean Russell, from Gatherer of Clouds

"If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right." -- Helyn D. Goldenberg

"I love you and I'm not afraid." -- Evanescence, "My Last Breath"

“If I hear ‘not allowed’ much oftener,” said Sam, “I’m going to get angry.” -- J.R.R. Tolkien, from Lord of the Rings

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Free Speech? Whazzat?

Very interesting article from The Guardian on the increasing momentum in our so-called "Western democracies" to curtail the right to protest -- that is to say, let's just eliminate this pesky free speech thing, OK?

It's a fairly short article, so just click through and read the whole thing. I do want to highlight this quote from South African author and Nobel Prize winner JM Coetzee:

I used to think that the people who created (South Africa's) laws that effectively suspended the rule of law were moral barbarians. Now I know they were just pioneers ahead of their time.

Well, yes.

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