Brian Beck | January 17 2006
If you support a king-like presidency, if you don't believe that due process is important for everybody, if you don't recognize a right to privacy, if you think freedom of religion means freedom to use public money to support the most popular religion, if you don't think it matters that our leaders lied to us about reasons for going to war, if it doesn't bother you that we torture prisoners, what exactly is it that you think makes this country great?
We have been a beacon of hope for more than two centuries because there was always the idea that these things are not acceptable in our government.
There have been stumbling blocks of course, but there were guiding ideals and the potential for what we could be generally outweighed the sins that were committed.
I get the sense now that those guiding principles are being thrown away. As the tyranny that sparked our existence gets forgotten in history books, we have collectively forgotten why so many of our rights were so important to the founding fathers.
It's not necessarily that they were smarter than any of us, but they saw first hand why those rights were so valuable.
Now, out of fear and ignorance, many in this country have decided that those rights really aren't that important. I hope it doesn't take another round of complete tyranny for people to again realize the importance of the liberties that we have been given. U.S. Constitution
3 comments:
It would seem to me that the writter believes what is reported and written by the media. Also listening to the party that. thankfully is NOT in the majority cry to the TV cameras. How sad they are, but if they could, would they come up with a solution prior to the start of the war.
Treason is part of their attack, They should be sent over there to live. Don Jorde
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but
one which should not only be founded on true free principles,
but in which the powers of government should be so divided and
balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could
transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and
restrained by the others." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia,
1782.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...
~Theodore Roosevelt
Sara
Freedom takes many stands; to be safe and free from harm from any other human being. We have rights. What do you think is, acceptable behavior dad?
Jefferson had it right, freedom
Post a Comment