Very few things *are matters of free speech compared to the number of free
speech issues announced by those whose agenda has little to do with
general freedom
And there's a scene at the end of one of Bergman's films, I think it's
wolf hour, where there is a man saying over and over again I will have my
freedom, or I want my freedom...
the camera goes up in a crane shot and one sees that he is walking round
and round in a circle, going nowhere, as he repeats it
those with power and who want to dominate see their activity as
intransitive - _I cat freely_
I mean _act_; though what I typed has possibilities, especially for cats
I ask (rhetorically) the misogynists and homophobes who want the freedom
to express themselves by what right they're in such states. Same with
racism; and overly-acquisitive tendencies
Their kind of _freedom_ is that of the thief who tells his victim _you
shouldn't have left it where I could take it_... it's a special plea and
generally by those who are not special at all in themselves
we could... well we could turn them into cat food
That'd be good for the population increase, as well as cats; and that'd be
good for Australian river levels. I'm only exercising my right to free
speech here of course
L
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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