Sunday 3 February 2019

We must understand what tremendous value free speech has and how it has to be used and protected intelligently.
We must understand that it's a considerably recent human achievement and every dogmatic believer or dictator will try to exert his power to undermine and limit it.

The death sentence of Socrates (399 BC) was legal consequence of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, from which resulted the two accusations of moral corruption and of impiety. At trial, the majority of the dikasts (male-citizen jurors chosen by lot) voted and agreed to a sentence of death by drinking a poisonous beverage of hemlock.

Jesus Christos was accused, tried and killed for blasphemy, meaning simple words that didn't go well with the establishment and religious lawyers of the time.

Painter Francisco Goya was probably last person tried by the Inquisition, which tortured and burned people alive roughly from 1231 till 1815.
The report of a representative of the secret service of the Inquisition court went: 'Having the obligation to initiate proceedings against painters in accordance with the eleventh rule of the censorship procedure [...] mentioned Goya should be summoned before the tribunal.'
A few dozen years earlier, such a note would have meant torture, trial and perhaps prison or execution. Once someone fell into the shaft and cogs of the Holy Office, it was not easy to free himself.
The painter, whose services were sought after by the aristocracy and the court, repeatedly immortalized on his canvases and graphics the victims of the torture of the Inquisition.
Fortunately for Goya, in 1815 the Spanish Inquisition did not have such impact on social life as before, even if on paintings like 'Procession of Flagellants' or 'The Court of Inquisition' he perfectly depicted the horror and the gloom of this institution. 'I am not terrified by witches, ghosts, behemoths, or other such creatures - wrote Goya - aside of man.'
Unlike the countless of earlier victims, no records survived of Goya's punishment. The Spanish Inquisition was finally liquidated five years later, in 1820.

Censorship decided what could and what could not have been be published in the communistic countries.

Even nowadays there are renowned European politicians who demand '20 lashes' for journalists who publish caricatures of a prophet or make fun of religious dogmas. And the journalists are shot down with machine guns.

The 'demons' who are none other than dogmatic men run by the META Process in the fragmentary perception are still openly practicing their rites and teaching children at schools in a number of countries.

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