4th of July

If you have a right to respect,
that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
Thomas Sowell


This my friends on the night of the 4th of July is the independence we are surely losing, and that is our right to think as we choose, and the freedom of speech to say things, yes even hateful things about one another.

I despise racism, truly but we must allow the racist his opportunity to speak or ultimately we lose our right to say what others may think is hateful. I think people who do physical harm to others because they hate what that person represents should be punished to the maximum of the law, no matter what that victim may represent. I don’t believe in abortion or in people who are hateful or violent to abortion doctors. Jesus said if you hate your brother then you’re a murderer.

In a course on ethics many years ago we discussed an existing group that believed sex between consenting children and adults should be legal. I asked why we didn’t just lock up every sick member of this group. Why should we protect the rights of perverts like that? Who in their right mind could think that was OK? My instructor gave a hypothetical situation and asked what if a proponent of this group became our leader and decided this was fine and made it law to speak against this perversion?

Most people I have met shouldn’t reproduce. It’s a fact; some really nice people make pretty lousy parents. Now, who decides who gets to have children? What are they allowed to be taught? Spanked? How should they be educated? When the government gets the job of protecting us, how long before they are protecting us from ourselves?

This is the beauty of our system of government. When it is not being twisted out of shape it has checks and balances so that power cannot shift in one direction for long enough to do permanent damage. The voters have enough control without allowing mob mentality to do anything stupid. Presidents, Congress and the Supreme Court all have great power; power to change and power to help or hurt, but ultimately only power enough to make a huge mark and not enough to send our system crumbling down.

Be careful with the responsibility you have as a citizen of this great country or you truly might not have it much longer.







"If a nation values anything more than freedom,
it will Lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that
if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will
lose that, too."
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British writer