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I hear some college students claim
they don’t stand against free speech,
all they want to ban is what’s ‘hateful,’
it will ‘improve’ society.

In truth they will do no such thing,
they serve a truly evil cause,
when they seek to take rights away
they are breaking natural laws.

That, you think, should be quite enough
to make them reconsider things,
not to mention without free speech
how would a person even think?

How could you even take in the world
without seeing something that offends?
We are annoyed by countless things,
and they bother us to no end.

I get pissed off every winter
when it’s rain instead of snow,
I get annoyed when comedians
chose their politics over jokes.

Hell, I get irked by so many things,
but I never would ban people’s talk,
to survive this world every idea
is something which you must take stock.

Whether to accept or reject,
or just peruse curiously,
if you are to learn anything new
you must broaden the things that you see.

And if you cannot talk about them
how will ideas be tested and tried?
How will you know what is the truth
and what is a damned, dirty lie?

Society’s quite Darwinian,
it destroys things that do not work,
subject our ideas to this process
and we’ll find out which go berserk

and which ones, somehow, stand the test of time,
which ones encompass a human truth,
the process may seem crazy at times,
perhaps that’s what sets off the youths.

They don’t yet know chaos is what life is,
the inspired mixed with the obscene,
they still lack the experience
to see past those Utopian dreams.

They don’t understand what censorship
does to a good person within,
death of the soul, like death of the flesh
is a prognosis lethal and grim.

They can’t remember folks in camps
who did not think the Soviet way,
or that when expression is silenced
it’s bullets that carry the day.

Or that difference, even conflict,
often is what spurs on new notions,
that speech is a ship discovering
a vast and endless mental ocean.

Though the journey can be quite rough,
it is what builds wisdom and wit,
Free Speech is never optional,
you can’t learn or grow without it.

And to those who try to drown in out,
you’re all standing upon quicksand,
sinking into a sterile group-think,
demeaned and deprived of what’s human.

If you want to really see the world,
and for your full potential reach,
let them all talk, and remember
you’ve a duty to protect Free Speech.
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