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Nov 2018
ever pay close attention to that
steve bannon speech at
the oxford union...
no?
      what do you see...
if you've ever seen the film
the enemy of the state
you'd spot the cameo gorillas...
so... this is what...
"freedom" of speech looks
like, these days?
i need four wing-men,
i need four bouncers
to protect me deviating
from a freedom of thought?
**** me... that surely
must cost an arm 'n' a leg...
i'm no exactly rich,
i can't afford either
the freedom of speech,
or a judicial process...
so... i'm mute...
i write... sure...
   but how can i speak,
when freely speaking
is an entitlement that
requires four bodyguards
to guard me,
in the ******* oxford union!
eh?!
freedom, "freedom" of speech...
if that's what this,
"freedom" looks like...
can i veto it, i don't want
it and i certainly don't
want it protected...
let's learn: telepathy...
let's run... wild!
frankly i rather think...
what?
my writing was dropped
into a public domain...
did i earn the 20 quid
banknote i found on the street?
did i learn of a person's
personal finances,
outside a bank-machine
where someone dropped
a bank statement?
this isn't talking...
   this is an extension of thinking...
i don't have the sort of money
to "freely" speak...
i'm no steve bannon,
courted by four bodyguards...
at, of all places...
the ******* oxford union...
what are we talking about?!
sure as ****: not thinking.
Mateuš Conrad
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Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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