SPOT THE FREE SPEECH CARD IN COBOURG

It’s been posted everywhere, because FREE SPEECH (as opposed to the Fee Speech of touring celebrities and politicians) is everywhere that a tongue torques poetry, prose or doggerel. Click on each photo to enlarge it to locate the FREE SPEECH card.

Begin the search for FREE SPEECH at the tourist information booth in front of Victoria Hall in downtown Cobourg. Festooned for the festivities of Canada Day, FREE SPEECH is reaffirmed to everyone who asks for directions.

One of the enticing characteristics of FREE SPEECH is that it is ‘unofficial’. That means The State is to abide by a big HANDS OFF. Remember that free speech is not a privilege free speech is a Right. For Poets it is more – it is a W/Rite. Poets are Poetic Licenced to carry 45 calibre metaphors and surface-to-sentence similes – licenced to skill until Poetic Justice prevails.

Zooming in – can you see his Right now?

Throughout the town, FREE SPEECH marked its turf on utility poles, available for any passerby or Freenik.

FREE SPEECH was provided to all public telephone stations, because genuine dialogue is facilitated with its generous usage.

It really shouldn’t need saying that FREE SPEECH is the raison d’etre of newspapers. Without it, the national/provincial/local community would eventually stagnate. FREE SPEECH is the oxygen of a living society.

Northumberland Today, formerly known as The Cobourg Daily Star, sheltered itself in the comfort of the community of cowards, when it declined to re-print the Danish cartoons of Muhammed in 2006. The Muslim anger that lead to murderous riots in several cities around the world was a cynical contrivance that duped the planetary news media. The Cobourg Daily Star editor, in an editorial asking, How Free Should We Be, (Feb 8/06) hung a transparently weak fig leaf over her smug righteousness, explaining why she refrained to reprint the cartoons thereby denying Cobourgers of their right to be informed of the cause of all the international fuss.

The self-censorshit editor defended herself, claiming ““Freedom of speech and freedom of the press comes with a certain amount of responsibility.” That’s it. That "certain amount of responsibility" included rejecting this extremely offensive letter-to-the-editor in response.

What were those certain responsibilities? The mealy-mouthed editorial never bothered to mention a single one. The is a betrayal of FREE SPEECH by an element of the fifth column which boasts that it is the chief defender of FREE SPEECH. “Certain amount of responsibility” is Newspeak for Nicespeak, which is Nospeak at all.

FREE SPEECH PARKING IN COBOURG'S DOWNTOWN

Imagine the delight of hundreds of visitors to Cobourg when they found a FREE SPEECH ticket under the windshield wipers of their cars.

Sub-Verse Agents of the Creative Intelligence Anarchy, of the Peoples Republic of Poetry, flooded the streets of the downtown area, leaving a trail of liberty lovin’ luck that asks for no price except vigilance.

Below are photo documents of several selected vehicles that were anointed with the salutations of FREE SPEECH. Every vehicle deserved two photos; of the vehicle in context; the other a close-up of the Right. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Even the professional practitioners of FREE SPEECH need a reminder.

FREEDOM: IT'S WORTH IT

Remember to click on an image to enlarge it. There can be pleasure in details.

The Cenotaph has stood its ground for decades in Cobourg’s Victoria Park. On Canada Day, 2009, it is surrounded by tents of hucksterism, selling cheap goods from Pakistan, India, Korea, China, and other developing countries, fast foods, etc.

Surrounded by mediocrity, it stands tall with dignity. The Lion’s Club of Cobourg still thinks inside the box by sponsoring a poster drawing contest for local school children; the theme is Peace. Sadly, not once, is there a community organization that sponsors the idea that FREEDOM has any value. It’s wilful neglect.

While people play out their daily lives in the shadow of this cenotaph, a poet adorns it with a pearl, a Free Speech card, as a reminder that the blood spilled was not in vain.

REST IN PEACE

LIVE IN FREEDOM

Unfashion Statement in Cobourg's Canada Day Parade

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Cobourg residents restrain themselves as Northumberland Today photographer saucily saunters the lite fantastic on the catwalk of King Street East.

COMING SOON TO A PARK NEAR YOU

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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS & FREE SPEECH

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STOVER'S RESTAURANT THRU THE AGES

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The restaurant is down the street on the left, near where Fardella's Fruit Market stood. Stover's Restaurant is currently occupied by Insight Optical.

In the image above, Stover's Store (not restaurant) is now occupied by the Buttermilk Cafe.

Once upon a time, until the late 60s, Cobourg permitted signs to overhang the sidewalk.

Click on the ad above to enlarge and note the prices.

Think saddle shoes, Gidget, Tammy, shotgun marriages.