Re: Canada Can Thank Israel for Volunteering as Thought Police

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 18:23, Rob Kaper wrote:
> I see no signs
> that the Star was forced into having an Israeli censor, in fact,
> they seem to have voluntarily submitted the story. Voluntary
> censorship is not an issue, enforced censorship is.

There is no such thing as voluntary or enforced censorship and if you 
must make the distinction, there is not a qualitative diference 
between the two, other than the fact that the "voluntary censorship" 
is much more subversive. It insinuates into people's brains rendering 
them incapable of thinking by them selfs.

I know what I'm talking about because I'm from a country that had 
censorship declared (with red and blue ink) and that other kind that 
you talked about. Even today in Portugal (wich left a extreme-right 
dictatorship just 29 years ago) we can find signs of those days quite 
easily. For instance, even though our constitution give us the use of 
free speech, it is not common to ear people voicing their opinions in 
public forums, it is not normal for people to fight for their rights 
or to participate within their comunities. Why? Because in the 48 
years of dictatorship the power was to be worshiped, on those days, 
to be a public servent was a very important position and the 
government untouchable! (Otherwise you would be called either 
communist or unpatriotic, and probably sent to a concentration camp 
in Cape Verde, very much like X-Ray camp). So people, voluntarly, 
started to censor themselfs.

I don't know if you have ever lived in a country with no liberty (I 
suspect not) but I can guarantie you that the ones that did, are not 
ready to give an inch of their liberty once they have won it. If 
someone has something to hide, and does hide it by means of 
censorship, terror, influence, a big wall or whatever, than that 
someone is IMO not thrustworthy.

-- 
bye,
hgg


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