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Tell the world!

#163
From: Opinion
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 00:00
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Hello One and All!

I wanted to put the internet technology and it's lack of physical
boundaries to good use, so I created a news style web site as a sort of
'shouting post' for everbody and anybody to write everything and
anything about everything and anything.

I got the inspiration after the recent events in Colorado with the
school murders that took place, and the news coverage that followed, I
felt that a lot of issues weren't dealt with in the press due to the
sensitivity of the whole subject in the general public eye. Everybody
seemed to use the situation to hammer home whatever 'wholesome' moral
they felt closest to themselves, whilst avoiding questions that were
dying to be asked, such as 

"How many years of psychological abuse through the form of lack of
acceptance for not fitting in with the high shool 'norm' did these
young men suffer before they did what they did?"

"Why are papers and news stations focusing on the fact that these boys
played violent computer games, instead of pointing out that a law
created in 1789 (correct me if I'm wrong on that date) in the American
Constitution is still providing people with the 'retail' ability to
obtain lethal weapons that can have no other function than to take
human life.

"How many victims of bullying and harrassment in schools, cheered to
themselves on the inside, on hearing the news that fellow victims had
crushed one of the sources of their misery?"

Questions like this rarely are discussed on a national/international
level because newspapers and TV stations are business's and rely on
popularity and public backing to survive, the last thing they are going
to do is take the risk of alienating 80% of their readers/viewers by
asking questions that many people don't want to have to face up to.

And so, 'Speech' was born.

All material posted on the site is free from censorship and is
completely anonomous when published on the web. So please support me
with this project, it's all about opinions and sharing them with the
rest of the planet in the hope that people can ask each other the
really important questions and speak their minds without fear of
censorship or indeed anything more violent than a strong worded
opposition to their thoughts being posted by somebody else with
something to say a few days later.

Tell your friends, just forward this mail on to everyone in your
mailing list, and ask them to do the same with their friends, thanks
for your support with this, I really think that it could go a long long
way, the website is located at.....

www.speech.free-online.co.uk

There are instructions and guidelines on the site for posting your
ideas and opinions.

Keep well one and all, and keep talking.
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