Free Speech

Well amis, Pierrot is here to talk to you today about a subject very close to his heart - free speech. I am not only interested in the subject for its' own sake, but because deep in my heart I believe that if we champion the right to free speech, the right to free steal autos and free love cannot be very far behind. But these fascists are as attached to their Citroens as they are to their housewives and their pathetic excuses for mistesses. But Pierrot wishes to be able to express himself and his ideas any way he feels - including obviously speaking, whether that be walking along a tree branch yelling phrases from Celine or telling the de Gaullistes that they should get their nazi hands out of Algeria. But some in our society believe that there are certain things that we should not be able to say - specifically against a god or religion, because those things are above scepticism. Pierrot laughs in their enfuriated collective face. Clearly they have not been in France long, where making fun of god and the medieval religion of this continent is an ancient custom. Have they not seen the playful farces of Rabelais, from half a millenium ago, targeting the sexual, greedy ways of hypocritical Catholic monks? In school they told of god's omniscience, his omnibenevolence, his omnipotence, his omnipresence. If he is everywhere, all-loving, -knowing, and -powerful would he not have created a universe where only good things are said about him? Why would he care, being so powerful, what puny idiotic mortals say about him, he'll have the last laugh at the gates of St. Peter! I do not believe in a god like such. Being a man of incredible intellect and independence I created my own god, a god of theft and trickery, of fleeting love and destruction, whom I worship through my actions - and my words. You can say whatever you want about him and neither he or I will be upset about it, in fact, we welcome the criticism because we are so sure of our superiority that we are not afraid of any puny words, unlike some fools who burn embassies over cartoons. The only thing I ever did about a cartoon was wrote a very appreciative letter to Mme Herge for her wonderful Tintin adventures! Free speech is essential to our society, which, however much I deny its' basic tenets and wish to destroy its' whole entire paradigm is ideal compared to most of the other societies in this world, where, in addition to speech being punished, stealing autos and having enjoyable sex are also dealt with harshly. If you do not like it, you should leave France, because our tradition of horny monks and dead gods is not going anywhere, not so long as Pierrot is around to restate the rallying cry of the enlightenment, 'ecrasez l'infame'! Friends, shatter these ancient myths, thought ought not to spare feelings! Then, one day, we will all steal each others wives and women and stomp on the religious icons of ages past.