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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Monday, February 27, 2023

John Reed and Lawrence Brown

Well, John Reed is dead. He was the intellectually corrupt head of the local human rights commission in Barnstable, MA.  For him, I was the wrong race, and so to be ignored.  So, how can I possibly write, RIP?  Rather RII, Rest In Infamy!  Below is an aquarelle I sketched on him a while ago.  Bureaucrat educator/columnist Lawrence Brown just wrote a Cape Cod Times hagiography on him, "Opinion/Brown: John Reed Cape civil rights activist pushed us to think about race, justice," which is how I was informed of the death.  And so, I write a counter-essay, which will be sent to the brick wall Times, which refuses to publish anything I send it...



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