Russian statesmen never pretended until the Soviet era to offer liberty, and eventually all that pretending caught up with them. The people that want to ban naked tits on a movie screen, or use of the words cunt and twat on a TV screen also want to limit free speech rights, so where is the defense of those free speech rights by conservatives? The answer is that there is none, there is instead the assumption that keeping kids from reading such ghastly tomes as Harry Potter filled with the unspeakable concepts of magic and the supernatural is valid.
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In short, physicians, heal yourselves.