Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Of censorship and blasphemy

Over the years I have experimented with things, thoughts, ideas and philosophies. Of all, most of the stuff is almost always available online except for the information that can be profitable for someone. Many old literature books are available online on project gutenburg just because these books dont have any copyrights. The reason !! nobody is alive to claim these copyrights. As compared to those timeless classics if you go in any decent book store nowadays, be it borders, barnes & nobles or any other simple paper store, you will find the worst of crap in the best of coverings and these paperbacks are so expensive that you sometime wonder whether some dummies actually buy them(no offence to anyone). My antagonism to this all apart, I think there should be a freedom of information act for whole of the world and not just for the cheap, useless information but the actual information for which money is being spent to be curtained from public eyes. People's lives are being played with like pawns on a chessboard by nation states but yet each and every one of these nation states' governments use means to keep these same people ignorant as much as they could. From artificial borders to presumed security threats, governments everywhere in the world have already gone beyond any moral values to penetrate in to the personal lives of people. Whether it being an NSEERS in america or a person 'condemned' for blasphemy in pakistan.... the Govts just wish to dictate people in a way that people can just abide by unwritten laws, stupid ethics carved by some retards or extremist morals. Anyways, what I am trying to write is that from time to time I would put up here some of such stuff which otherwise would be deemed 'illegal' here. But as you may see, I dont believe in every absurd law. I respect the good ones, but I hate the ones made by people with a lesser IQ then mine... so considering the fact that I have already put up my picture with salman rushdie up here while living in Pakistan, I would also be uploading some parts of books such as satanic verses etc.... A firm believer of the right to be free and learn free without any prejudice, I will also be putting up parts from 'banned' and 'condemned' books which here come under the heading of blasphemy..... hah! blasphemy !! whats a blasphemy when its just a man talking of another man...

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