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[camwyn]

*eyes the LONDON news this morning*

Oh, fucking hell.

NOT COOL, YOU HEAR ME? NOT COOL.

quintus? May I have permission to come over there and exercise my prerogative as an American to be an arrogant violent bastich at the people responsible until they whimper and bleed from new and innovative places?

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[lwood.livejournal.com]

Odd thing about free speech.

The stuff most in need of defence is the stuff you least want to hear.

Odd thing about the mucky bits of the mind, too: it's healthier to talk about doing narsty things than it is to deny you ever had the impulse.

Now, perhaps it's because I'm not Christian -- Jesus did have that bit about how thinking of committing adultery is as sinful as actually shagging the neighbor's wife -- but in my world actions speak louder than the words. We say, "we are our deeds," not "we are the things we spout off about when we haven't had any sleep and we've been cold-cocked by the world for a bit've a breakfast treat."

I know camwyn, and have for longer than most of you. She says things, and writes them, but doesn't do them, in part because of the perfectly healthy safety valve she's built into her id. She worked for the Red Cross for however-mumble years, been in more shit than I can name and while her mouth sometimes goes astray, her money and her arse don't.

That's where I judge her. Not when a "friend" who theoretically supports civil rights accuses her of speaking her mind. That sounds like a bit've liberal fascism, that does.

Isn't it the ones who don't tell you about their mucky bits when they have every right to spout about 'em that you have to worry about?

-- Lorrie