sentence "without limiting freedom of speech" an artwork of proganda

Submitted by myth (Germany), Jan 18, 2010 at 17:28

I will only make reference to what is on this very site. The slogan "without limiting freedom of speech" is an artwork of propaganda. Why ? It reverses direction twice. "without" indicates a limitation of something, which turns out to be "limiting" itself. "freedom" again is opposed to limitation. "freedom" by itself is the absence of limitation. Makes it quite complicated as to what it really says. If I had to rephrase it in an utterly unintelligible way I would say this: "limitation on the limitation of no limitation in speech". Now what in essence does the original say, freedom or limitation ? Clearly it says you have do without something, whatever it is, but doing without is not freedom. That's the propaganda bit, the slogan uses the word "freedom" but actually has other intentions. This reminds me of east-german people who usually say they had "no freedom of travel" in the eighties. Which somebody who grew up in the western world would simply say as "we were imprisoned". Applied to the ad slogan, they could simply say "protecting freedom of religion and freedom of speech".

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