COLD PRESS

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
i wrote some books and gave away library. i like to think that every poem is a love poem. i believe that "No" is a full sentence. i used to collect old books and young cats. i don't like noisy people, places or things. my three favourite words: yes, please, thank you. my favourite punctuation mark is the colon: i have a beautiful cat, a bicycle, an old typewriter, and a ladle. these things make me happy.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Yes, I know that a lot of Americans are bound to be infuriated about my stance on the subject of porn and obscenity what with their Second Right Amendment to their Constitution. So be it. I am not American, I do not live in America, we do not have a Second Amendment about freedom of speech. We do have obscenity laws and people have gone to jail for publishing obscenity and actually been deported back to their countries of origin for breaking those laws. Pornography is such a slippery slope straw man legal argument that it is difficult to fight in the Courts on either side of our borders. They also behead and stone people to death for egregious acts in other countries as well. Doesn't mean that I have to embrace any of it. I have as much right to free speech as anyone and I stand by my principles that anything that demeans, demoralizes, objectifies human beings has to answer to a higher level of moral imperative than some Constitution written by men for men at a particular time in history and is not a law, in my not so humble opinion, worth protecting. I cannot just shut up and be quiet and pretend that everything is just lovely the way things are. If something looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck - it's a duck. P.S.: Okay Th~ maybe not a duck. A quack? lol

1 comment:

Thomas said...

Ducks talk?
Who knew!
Mustn't be a duck then.