Mot censuren: Against Censorship

Risto Koskien
Jag skriver detta på engelsa ty detta är av allmännt intresse.
Jag kommer nu att sätta mig ner och skriva om
mina upplevelser igår du får dem senare.

In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Catholic. Then they came for me... and by that time, there was no one to speak up for anyone.
-- Martin Niemoeller, Pastor,
German Evangelical (Lutheran) Church

There are discussions about censorship in our organization to be. This is according to me, a threat. So i am writing this as a person, every single line written here is my own personal opinions, and only i Risto Koskinen, will take personal responsibility for this. At the same time i would like every single person, sharing or not sharing my ideas, to write about this so we can start a debate. If we do not then i'm afraid those able to see the future will decide on our behalf. Because i belive only those with this gift can see the consequences of a free debate, i am not one of them. I can read, so i can see what the history can tell us, i can speak so i can tell what i have read.
We can all remember the old Soviet regime, because there was no free speech, there was silence. If someone, and there was always someone, spoke aginst the regime, he was able to continue that speech in a Gulag. The regime thought that their state was the best form imaginable, if someone thougt different then he/she couldn't understand and was put in rehabilitaition, otherwise the ideas shown came from abroad and were acting against the state in an attempt to dissolve the main structures, because this was an criminal act. There was no future for this person. Non of us could see, that those persons acting for the right for free speach would actually change the future for that state, and it came unbelivingly suddennly.
The lesson to learn according to me, is that every organization trying to act against free speech is digging it's own grave.
Our policy in Sweden is to be open minded in an open society, and that means to promote free debate, to promote free speech.
Furthermore there was once a great guy who said, something like, who is the person to throw the first stone, who is so without sin so he can judge over his human fellows. I believe Censorship is like throwing stones, someone has to decide what is good and what is bad, Who is that person who can see the future, and who is the one believing that her/his opinions are the only accepable ones.
If someone get's hurt because of non censorship. There are possiblities to act in defence for those people. All of us defending free speech must act in defence for those persons attacked in the name of free speech. We must act in solidarity, we must act because we are all humans, and if we do not act then we can start to discuss seriously, to act against the right for free speech an censorship. But then i belive there will be nothing to discuss because at that time there are no people remaining, there are people looking like humans without human feelings without the fundamental humanvalue. Then there will be no society there will be no me, because without you there is no me.

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