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Repression of the right to think in Jubilee and CORD should worry us

Freedom of conscience is the mother of all freedoms. You cannot begin enjoying any other liberty if you are not free to think. It is the progenitor of the freedom of religion, association and expression.

In the late 16th century, Queen Elizabeth I of England revoked a law of thought censorship. She did not wish “to make windows into men’s souls and secret thoughts.” Yet in Kenya in the 21st century “democratic institutions” are hell bent on limiting people’s freedom to think and on zombification of citizens.

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