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                            Freedom of Speech

                          by Vivian Darkbloom

   [October 11, 2005]

   No matter where you stand on the issue of child eroticism:
   whether you feel children should repress or express their sexual
   impulses, or whether you feel that adults should disparage or
   celebrate the same, it should be clear than the apparent present
   effort to stifle discussion on the topic will harm everybody.

   Prohibition against free verbal discourse will never promote
   sensible decisionmaking. It yields solely fear of the unknown.

   If the government rules out explicit verbal fantasies involving
   child sex what happens next? Will it become unacceptable to
   record such ideas using pen and paper in the privacy of your
   home? Will they try to outlaw the fantasies themselves?

   Where it leads is simply ludicrous.

   The fact is, erotica describing child sex inherently IS a
   political statement, implicitly in opposition to the current
   legislative and social taboos. True, obviously: it's offensive to
   many, and deviates from the ridiculously narrow and unrealistic
   categories of sexual behavior deemed acceptable by our painfully
   puritanical culture.

   But an essential principle this country is based on, is the right
   to voice opinions in opposition to that of the established view.
   And without such freedom, any "war against terror" is completely
   meaningless. Because whenever one gives up freedom, it means that
   terror has won.

   It is in our struggle against those who would oppress with fear,
   that we may sometimes be forced to discover the courage we truly
   possess. Courage based on hope and vision of a world where
   understanding and tolerance reign.

   And always remember the friendly words on the front of the
   hitchiker's guide: "DON'T PANIC!"

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