A Forum for Vigorous Debate, Cornerstone of Democracy

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A FORUM FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND VIGOROUS DEBATE, CORNERSTONES OF DEMOCRACY
[For the journal--guidelines, focus, etc.--go to www.theamericandissident.org. If you have questions, please contact me at todslone@hotmail.com. Comments are NOT moderated (i.e., CENSORED)!]
Encouraged censorship and self-censorship seem to have become popular in America today. Those who censor others, not just self, tend to favor the term "moderate," as opposed to "censor" and "moderation" to "censorship." But that doesn't change what they do. They still act as Little Caesars or Big Brother protectors of the thin-skinned. Democracy, however, demands a tough populace, not so easily offended. On this blog, and to buck the trend of censorship, banning, and ostracizing, comments are NEVER "moderated." Rarely (almost NEVER) do the targets of these blog entries respond in an effort to defend themselves with cogent counter-argumentation. This blog is testimony to how little academics, poets, critics, newspaper editors, cartoonists, political hacks, cultural council apparatchiks, librarians et al appreciate VIGOROUS DEBATE, cornerstone of democracy. Clearly, far too many of them could likely prosper just fine in places like communist China and Cuba or Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Russia, not to mention Sweden, England, and Austria.
ISSUE #47 PUBLISHED MAY 2024. NOW SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE #48.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Cape Cod Times

On the American Dissident bulletin board in front of my house on Commerce Road in Barnstable, Massachusetts, I posted the ollowing poem:  


The Cape Cod Times
What makes a “newspaper of the year”
and “New England General Excellence Winner”?

Sanitized script for the easily offended, of course!
Promotion of Chamber-of-Commerce tourist art!
Echo-news on the nation’s vacuous celebrities!  
Tedious feel-good articles by the same columnists!
Knee-jerk rejection of anything critical of the editor!
Reluctance to print hardcore criticism of community pillars!
General apathy to local issues of freedom of speech! 

Yeah, all of the above—
the Cape Cod Times… and why you shouldn’t buy it!

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