Letter: Draconian laws
How long will it be before we have a board of censors to examine books and newspapers for material that might offend our clerics?
Perhaps "Banned by the Censor" will become a much sought-after accolade by authors. To see how the system could develop we might take a look at post-war Ireland, whose ethos is much admired by many of our politicians and academics.
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Hide AdThere, censorship, ostensibly introduced to protect the state, was used to silence critics of the government and the Catholic Church.
Could anyone who now published the anti-Muslim cartoons from Denmark be incarcerated?
JACK KILPATRICK
Lairhills Road
East Kilbride