Free speech (was EU)

[James Heartfield]

In message <20010823021014.F397 at niji.or.jp>, jean-christophe helary
<helary at niji.or.jp> writes
>our modern consumer whatever societies restrict citizen's deliberations' 
>abilitybecause they are consumption oriented systems and the system is controled 
>by the media and lets marginals at the margins so that everybody can testify 
>there is freedom of whatever you want. there is not even freedom of consumption. 
>how could there be freedom of speech. our societies work because hundreds of 
>millions of people are economically oppressed and have no right at all. our 
>globalized societies are not democracies.

Assuming that your pessimistic dismissal of your fellow citizens false
consciousness is correct, 

are you saying that free speech *is* important, because it is denied.... 

or .... 

are you saying that free speech is a utopian goal that should be
shelved?

-- 
James Heartfield