Yes, and the Inquisition was endlessly helpful to the likes of Giovanni Bruno.

At 06:33 PM 4/22/98 +0000, you wrote:
>What's all this about censorship meant to be proving? Old Ginsberg was
>just about the most successful poet there has been in the English-speaking
>world this century. So if he was oppressed and censored by the british
>establishment (as I dare say he was) that would seem to prove that such
>oppression and such censorship are good for you.
>
>I'd also like to say (though I may have misunderstood what was being
>described) that if the Manchester Police were successful in censoring and
>suppressing a publication promoting virulent racism, then the Manchester
>Police are my friends.
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>I shouldn't be doing this I've got a poetry conference on my hands in two
days.
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>///P Riley
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