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Author: Doppelganger

   Main website: /~doppelganger/ Title: Controlled
Speech Keywords: (MF, humil, tragic)

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   This story is set in the fictional "Reatcher World"
/files/Authors/doppelganger/reatcher_world.txt .  Read
it to understand why the described events would be possible.

   Democracy has deteriorated.  The right to protest and freedom of speech
still hold, at least in theory, but now, those that want to demonstrate
have to formally request permission to the police, which can grant or deny
it in a rather arbitrary way (but usually, following indications from the
government).  Lately, the police has only been allowing the mildest forms
of protest; those that do not endanger their position and just give an
illusory sensation of mild dissent, or just serve as unwilling buffoons
that strengthen the popularity of the government among the populace. 
Sometimes, the police accepts a demonstration conditionally to allowing
only slogans of their choice and changing any other conditions of the
event, like time, place, and way in which it takes place.  Police and
government have decided that this is the best strategy to keep an illusion
of freedom, while benefiting at the same time from the process of blurring,
neutralizing and declawing any public expression of opposed ideologies, to
the point of turning them into mere parodies of themselves.

   Recently, a small group of local university students with an
above-average representation of females has planned to organize a protest
related to some humanist civil rights cause.  Like many youth, they are
idealist, but they are also moderate and they believe the only way to
advance and achieve something is in a civilized way, using diplomacy
instead of agressiveness and violence.  Therefore, even if they dislike it
deeply, they decide to abide by the current rules and request permission at
the police, filling all the formalities.

   The student in charge of attending the meeting that will end in a
permission or rejection is a female member.  The head of local police may
have some fun imposing draconian conditions for the demonstration to take
place, like imposing mottos that are so toned down that look ridiculously
timid, and conditions that are viciously hard and even denigrating for the
demonstrators, like having sme parts of their bodies exposed.  But the
students will have to choose between accepting these conditions to be able
to transmit at least paort of their message, and reject them and lose any
opportunity to express their views.  Additionally, the latter option
includes the veiled risk of entering the government's black book of
"extremists" that are not willing to comply with the government's
conditions.  Even if the conditions are very hard and some of the students
reject to continue with the protest under them, some others, like the one
sent to negotiate, may begrudgingly accept the conditions as the only way
to convey a tiny fraction of their message.