Boiling the Censorship Frog

First they come for your “porn”.
To protect the children, don’tcha know?
Then they come for your erotica.
Slippery slope when wet, right?
Then they come for your horror.
All those unhealthy images.
Next they come for your young adult fiction.
Encouraging volatile youth might get them hurt.
Then they come for your romance.
Why stir up all those “feelings”?
Next they come for your science fiction and fantasy.
Can’t have you living in dreamland, can we?
Then they come for your military fiction.
Don’t want you learning tactics or methods of dissent or resistance.
Then they come for your mystery stories.
Don’t want to encourage you to investigate or think.
Newspapers are next.
They’re just tabloid lies anyhow, rot your brain.

Anything remaining? The nonfiction was swamped by crazy lies and the textbooks were burned long ago.

Newspapers? Only approved ones kept afloat by big money are legal.

Think any of this is imaginary?  Think it’s not happening right now?
Good; keeps you from doing anything to stop it.

/ GOP psychopathic corporate fascist theocratic oligarchy handbook

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie
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