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“Stay cool and don’t believe anything the Bush administration tells you. In fact, play it safe: don’t believe anything anybody tells you.” – George Carlin
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“Spare no expense to save money on this one.” – Samuel Goldwyn
Modded Again
I write this moments after posting a comment on Comment is Free. I shall reproduce it here as I doubt it will get published any time soon.
Dear CiF Mods,
I posted links to four photos that I own the copyright to and are licensed under a very liberal method that actively encourages people to download and use in any way they choose and what happens? You censor my post. I’m sure that in a discussion about copyright issues this has an irony that is not lost on most readers.
So, dear Mods, was it because some of the content contained mildly satirical criticism of Lady Mandelson? Too many links? Is it because I is black? I’d love to know.
By the way, before you deleted my post over 3,500 people got to see and/or download the images so it was all a bit of a stable/horse/bolt situation anyway. Rather like Mandy’s disconnection policy. Oh look, bonus irony.
Even more ironic is that there are plenty of comments on this article that actively explain how to circumvent Her Ladyship’s new policy and avoid the long arm of her law. It really does make me wonder why my post got removed.
A question too for Lady Mandy’s special friend David Geffen. Is that a politician in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
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“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.” – Sir Fred Hoyle
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“My policy on cake is still pro having it and pro eating it.” – Boris Johnson
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“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” – James Madison
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“There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.” – Samuel Johnson
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“The government I cast upon my brother,
And to my state grew stranger, being transported
And rapt in secret studies.”
- William Shakespeare
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“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.” – Edmund Burke
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“Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.” – Simon Hoggart
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“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytising zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.” – Aldous Huxley
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“I would have given my right arm to be a pianist.” – Sir Bobby Robson, former England manager
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“This is a good day for parliament, open justice and free reporting.” – Alan Rusbridger, Guardian editor
