One of my favorite writers on this planet is Henrick Ibsen. Ibsen in one of his books propounds one of the most outrageous suppositions I have come across.

Ibsen claims in that book mbu the majority of the people in this world are fools. I would not have loved Ibsen that much if I, myself had not been a fool.

However given that I am a self confessed fool, Ibsen gives me the confidence that I have throngs of colleagues in the world out there and this gives me a reason not to feel secluded from the world out there simply because I am a fool.

On top of that Ibsen promulgates that one of the reasons why he abhors democracy is because democracy is highly dependant on the decisions of the majority and given that the majority are fools, such decisions that result from democracy are often foolish decisions.

After all how does one expect fools and worst of all when they unanimously agree on one thing to come up with wise decisions? It is basically impossible.

That is why I have always thought that some of these freedoms that are constitutionally protected under the pretext of promoting democracy are simply freedoms that are meant to principally benefit the fools. Take for instance this so called freedom of expression.

This freedom is squarely meant to benefit the fools. Otherwise how can we expect the wise to benefit from such a freedom when what they say is always prudent and is less likely to rub those in power the wrong way unlike we the fools that always upset the government with our foolish opinions?

By the way though I agree with Ibsen's suppositions of the majority on this planet being fools, I do not abhor democracy like he does because unlike him whom I believe is not a fool and does not benefit from the democracy, I am and therefore I benefit from the democracy. 

Therefore I was almost murdered with excitement the other day when I leant that the constitutional court had decided that the law of sedition contravenes the constitutionally protected freedom of expression and thus declared the law on sedition unconstitutional.

Indeed it was a win for journalists but I am constrained to add that in actual sense a win for us the foolish journalists and not those wise ones that are always prudent enough to avoid rubbing the powers that be the wrong way in their journalistic work.

For example I have been writing foolish things in this column from the first day I got my pen to scribble something down for this column but I have never been arrested simply because of freedom of expression. In fact I if there is any fool in this world that has benefited from the freedom of expression then it is I.

That is why since that day the court declared the law on sedition unconstitutional, I have been but expressing my foolish opinions wherever I go. From that historical morning, I decided to cease tying the expression of my foolish opinions to this column but instead have them extended to other areas of my life.

I want people out there to understand how glad and delighted we are that freedoms that benefit us the fools are being promoted. Indeed we want the world to know that even the fools have something to tell them.

Now that there is freedom of expression I will force my foolishness down their throats by expressing it without fear or favour after all it is not I that told that court to underpin the freedom of expression with that decision.

Hence the next time you bump into my skeleton around town disturbing people's peace just because I want to express my foolish opinions, do not blame it on me but on the freedom of expression. May be you can also blame the constitutional court that has made it easier for us to express our foolish opinions with that recent decision.