COUNTERPUNCH LETTERS : More Perspective About Freedom of Expression

Pogue’s “Don’t Tell Me What to Read, See or Think” was an excellent diatribe against the would-be moralists. If these people had their way, we might as well leave the lens cap on when shooting a film, empty our pens of their ink of expression, let our brushes of paint dry out and close our mouths to the freedom of speech.

What would result from this bastardization of feelings would be a colorless, thoughtless, speechless world bound by the restraints of an Orwellian mind-set. Soon America would begin to resemble the very dictatorships and police states we have come to abhor.

Is that what these self-appointed leaders want?

TODD GROVES

Los Angeles