In an 1823 letter to Lafayette, Jefferson warned:
“The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted to be freely expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.”
People of countries
under authoritarian rule
must nod knowingly
as the USA
a brutal proponent of Democracy
- free speech rule one
are demanding the cease and desist of wiki leaks
using moral suasion
to disrupt their funding and publication…
the usa
is a pretend democracy
is it still about the worker
and the elite?
in Bangladesh they die in labour battles
workers have a vote and terrible conditions
rich, fat and uncensored…
or so we were told…
if it can be
bought and sold
it can be manipulated
commodified…
past tense
in the west i have been led to believe
life is a celebration
and money can buy appearance
calculating
fortunately power is
and Assange has devised a brilliant
marketing strategy
almost unstopable
because of the internet
and at least the idea
of free speech
Churchill said,
“Democracy is the best we got”
on a personal note
i will be going to see mom and dad before i head out
on a writing retreat, til the end of March.
The areas internet connection is suspect so the blog publishing may be irregular…
we were all children once…
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