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Comment by ɐuɐz ǝllǝıuɐp on July 8, 2013 at 7:02am

I have saying "Censorship is a dick, because it fucks people up". Because their is no information for people to learn, think on, debate on people naturally start running on automatic, yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir...

Comment by Tom Sarbeck on July 8, 2013 at 5:56am

I enjoy defaming Catholicism. For minutes, not hours at a time.

I live in a retirement home for war veterans. It's a state-owned place and I've had a few First Amendment battles with state employees. The Amendment won most of the battles quickly when I told those employees the First Amendment doesn't allow them to make the decisions they'd made.

One rather large battle was about the movies I was showing two nights a month on a closed circuit tv network. Happily, the administrator supported the First Amendment and when the battle reached her office she stopped it in a most delightful way: she asked me to write a movie policy and said she would sign it. I did and she did. End of battle.

The amazing part was that in this retirement home I was showing movies rated R for sexuality--movies that 17-year-olds can see without their parents. Who battled me the hardest? One of the non-veteran wives of veterans here. Yeah, she was a Catholic.

Another battle was over a Poetry and Short Prose bulletin board on which I'd posted a one-page prose piece about the many uses of the word fuck.

The state employee sent the issue to a Veterans Department attorney, who took the wind out of his sails.