The Great Australian Firewall Poem by Roy Lee

Don’t label me a child sex offender.
Nor am I someone of dubious gender.
Bestiality is not for me or my kin,
Nor is there ‘other objectionable’ website sin,

And I am certainly not a drug abuser.
I am just an ordinary computer user.
I email my friends and surf the net
And yes, occasionally make a small bet.

It’s not a bother to see someone nude.
But, I loathe the rants of an intolerant prude.
A government firewall is what I do not need,
So I do support those who want no clean feed.

Sure, I trust the government’s good intent
To protect you people from being bent.
You will be safer each night in bed
When ‘they’ control what’s going into your head.

I know nothing of URLs or cyberspace
But history has been before, at this place.
They say no-one will ever abuse this power,
(Until, of course, some future political hour) .

Because censorship is not such fearful news
Until a nation exterminate a few million Jews.
Or at the square where tanks roll over the dead,
And on Chinese screens, where not a word is said.

Kim Jong IL uses this weapon for his state
Silence his critics and seals their fate.
An autocrat will control his dominion
By bans on a movie, book or opinion.

And didn’t they try in sixty-nine,
To use the police and law to fine
Those who sold and read Portnoys Complaint?
For each in power thinks them-self to be a saint.