Let it be Known/Hypercritical.

Its as if they take a needle to your eyes,

threading them closed,
stitching them shut.

Its as if they take a wad of cotton to you ears,

slathered in gorilla glue,
clogging them up.

They want to limit what you see.

What you read.
What you think.

They take what they want you to learn and jam it,
cram it,
down your throat,
choking you on their will.

All whist they lock away the words that have been deemed harmful for your health.

Who are they?

They are your parents,

your elders,
your governors,
and your bureaucrats.

They are those who are older than you.

They are those who believe that with age comes wisdom,
and with their self imposed wisdom comes self-righteousness.
They wave off the concerns that the First Amendment is being breached.
Its for the greater good of the children, they say as the take carefully selected books off the
shelves, of course its okay!

(Scoff) For the children.

Of course!

Not.

If they were for the children then theyd want them to broaden their horizons!

Let kids explore the pages of undiscovered lands of fantasy and make believe within the
Hundred Acre Woods.
Let them understand what Anne Frank had to say!

Let them be unrestrained!

So what if there is magic within those pages, if stuffed animals are talking and walking about.

So what if theyre religion is against such blasphemy.

Not everyone is apart of your religion, my dear.

So what if there is a little bit of sexual content described within a text?

News flash, bud, your mother and father did the do and made you.

Or did you not know about that too?

Seeing that across the nation schools are banned from accurately teaching their students how the
birds and the bees work, I wouldnt be surprised.

Banned from teaching such obscene materials to their precious, innocent, little cherubs.

I hope they know that their kids are not as innocent as they may like to delude themselves into
believing.

And while they may wage war on words,

creating a barbed wire fence of censorship with sharp tipped spikes of intolerance,
Let it be known that they are doing more harm than good.

With each book banned,

with each act of censorship,
they are blocking the acquisition of knowledge,
stunting the growth of intellectual development,
paving a grey and bleak road for creativity,
and barricading a way the ability for critical thinking.

And while they may retain their beliefs that reading an immoral book or watching a violent
movie leads to a life of delinquency,
littered with daily dalliances and constant bouts of destructiveness,
let them think on Peter S. Jennisons words,

Children deprived of words become school dropouts;

dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently.
Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines,
when, in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

They tell us that we ought to make informed decisions on drugs, drinking, and sex,
and yet they do nothing but scorn when we try,
and then they turn around conceal the knowledge that they want us to know.

Its all rather hypocritical.