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do you have any idea how important free speech was to this scene? to this show? to my entire career? there wouldn't BE a rowan atkinson were i not given the right, by law, to express myself freely, openly, and with all intent to offend.

i, rowan atkinson, am going to insult you, as is my right as a citizen of great britain. and what can you do about it? nothing, except exercise your own right, to insult me back. it is this which britain is founded upon, and it is this i will defend till my last with two weapons which must never be yielded in any circumstance - my mind, and my mouth.