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John E Marks
1 min readOct 15, 2021

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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell aka Eric Blair

There are those on the Fascist left who want to police what we say and/or censor what we write. In fact, they’d prefer it if we self-censor and in so doing reduce the margins of free expression voluntarily. The bare-faced cheek of it! Most of these pimply touchy-feely types don’t know their arse from their elbow, so what gives them the right to censor what I may say or write? A pompous sense of their own goodness and self-importance? Nothing at all? I’ll go for the nothing at all. These holier-than-thou ejits can all just feck off. FINIS.

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John E Marks
John E Marks

Written by John E Marks

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

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