The way things are going the time will soon come
When people who think will be forced to be dumb,
And not say aloud what they know to be true,
If a government feels that they
don’t like their view
On a whole range of topics, which
stretch very wide,
And the government takes on itself
to decide
What people can say, or can write
in the press,
So thinkers must operate under
duress,
Omitting to say what they really
believe,
While hating the series of lies
they must weave.
But freedom of speech has been
part of the law
Of most modern countries for ages
before
The start of the twenty-first
century change,
When topics forbidden can now
often range
From religion to politics, people
and race,
So many subjects don’t now have a
place
For open discussion, with sharing
of views,
Leaving their hearers to listen
and choose
What they feel’s right from the
things they have heard,
Without all the arguments
forcefully blurred
By fairly strict censorship, which
always seeks
To curtail the freedom of a thinker
who speaks.
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