OUT-RACISM: IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH ONLY FOR THE RICH AND POWERFU...

OUT-RACISM: IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH ONLY FOR THE RICH AND POWERFU...: Black soldiers. We were always there -- and here... The problem with freedom of speech is that seemingly, only the rich has freedom to s...

IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH ONLY FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL?

Black soldiers. We were always there -- and here...

The problem with freedom of speech is that seemingly, only the rich has freedom to speak freely.  Only the rich and powerful are allowed to determine what free speech is.

But all is not lost.  In the end, the poor, black and other ethnic minorities among us,  shall inherit the earth.  The rich and powerful? Well, they inherit the wind -- of course.  Then they can whistle to it, because those who matter will have long stopped listening to them.

As with these downtrodden  groups not being allowed to speak freely, there is the matter of us not being believed by those in authority also.  That is to say, those in authority know fully well that we are telling the truth.  However, it is in their own interest, imposed by the rich and powerful, to 'deliberately' disbelieve us.

James Baldwin

But, we must never lose heart.  We must keep our heads held high, because we told the truth. That we weren't believed,  doesn't matter one jot. The smirking rich knows that we did, and the smug official knows also.  Importantly, God Almighty knows that we did. And, He of course NEVER FORGETS!

During the First World War, British soldiers sang a song which conjures up the dilemma faced by we: the poor and the downtrodden.

"She  was poor but she was honest
Victim of a rich man's game.
First he loved her, then he left her,
And she lost her maiden name ...

It's the same the whole world over,
It's the poor wot gets the blame,
It's the rich wot gets the gravy,
Ain't it all a bleedin' shame?"    
[Anonymous]

Lord Justice Leveson -- Will his inquiry be in vain?

In his essay, 'Nobody Knows My Name', James Baldwin says it all, in that:

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor". [James Baldwin]

Er, and would I be correct in saying that if the Leveson report is not implemented in the way his Lordship intends it, that the rich and powerful will continue to:
a) Say and write whatever they want about the poor?
b) Continue to glean said information or disinformation, by any means necessary?

And will it also mean that when the poor and downtrodden write the truth, that it can be all so easily expunged by the rich and powerful, who threatens legal action?

 Of course!

But think about it: Who made them rich and powerful in the first place?  Ain't it your money and misjudgement of them?  Then why keep bankrolling them?  Isn't it time you see them for the merciless hypocrites they are, and withhold your money, and favours?

What a sorry world in which we live today; if you happen to be poor, black, and of other downtrodden ethnic minority groups, eh!  -- Ain't it a bleedin' shame?