Stand Up For America and Freedom

I needed a few minutes to get my brain around this one. I was brought up in a very liberal Democratic household. I am 62, Democrat was a little different then, there was actually a distinction between democrats and socialist, a line that has blurred to nothing this day. My father never hit me that I can remember, but then again I was a good kid and didn’t need much discipline, but even if I was horrid I doubt he would have resorted to the stick for punishment. My father was a man of words and as such you didn’t want him angry at you because his words could be very cutting. Swearing wasn’t tolerated and an argument was always welcome but he would stop you if you got emotional or raised you voice, saying if you had to raise your voice you have lost your argument. I take very little from my father but that one thing I never forgot and still hear it ringing in my ears. Why do I tell you all of this, I am pretty sure that one of the words that would have raised my father to using corporal punishment may have been if one of us were to have use the N-word. To this day, I cringe when I hear it said by either White or Black man and never in my life have I said the word out loud and never will. I guess this is one of those cases where the saying “I may not like what you say but defend to the death your right to say it”.

Although the 1st amendment was adopted not for pornographers and so called churches that picket the funerals of our fallen heroes. It was intended to give every person the right to speak out against the government if that be necessary. That right is being challenged both by the left bending congress and self correcting Judicial by acts like McCain/Feingold and the Fairness act(that is coming around again) just to name two. President Bush is human and has made some mistakes, signing M/F and saying the Supreme Court will strike it down didn’t show the usual courage exhibited by our President. All manifestations of the Nanny State telling you what you can do and say and even think. The words of our great president Abraham Lincoln come to mind “We are now engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure”. The war is not one of bullets (yet) but it does rage, between people who believe in individual rights and those that believe in the rights given by them to you as they see fit, for a very long time these people have been called Elite(I have found this word used in this sense as far back as pre revolutionary war). These people under the guise of social justice want to control every aspect of your life, they have names like Clinton, Obama, Bidden, Guiliani and Romney for starters. They will have all the power and we will be getting the invoices for payment.

In the end any one word isn’t very powerful, hurtful possible but the old adage “Sticks and Stones”. But if the words are put together into sentences and the sentences put into paragraphs and the paragraphs put into speeches that call for the persecution of a people, just because of what they believe or worse because of what they look like, then that may be considered going over the line. This is not what was intended, the 1st and 2nd amendment protect the right of groups to congregate and to take action against the government if enough people decide to do that, thus a civil war, it has happened before. This is the protection of the Bill of Rights to assure that a country that was born from the acts of oppression should not have to sustain its people as oppressed without the means to change it if necessary. This is the real meaning of the 1st and 2nd amendments. We are constantly fighting the political battles of Hamilton and Jefferson and it is a shame that Jefferson is no longer represented by either party, but lives on in the hearts of many American people.

You are quite right when you say, "I guess this is one of those cases where the saying “I may not like what you say but defend to the death your right to say it”.

That is exactly the point of my article and you have discerned and summarized it precisely.

It is my assertion that you should always be careful what weapon you use against another. for it will inevitably used against you - sooner or later.

I fully understand the repugnance of the "N-word." The only thing more repugnant to me, is the tightening noose of Political Correctness that is choking the life out of our First Amendment.

I wonder how many people know that the term "Political Ccorrectness was originally a Communist term meaning "to conform to the Communist Party View?"

Thank you for your very cogent comment.