I find it hard to support freedom of speech when it is closer to slander and libel than exercising the right to speak our opinions in an educated, constructive manner.
I feel many of the recent protests, referring to the past year and a half, are racially charged and based on matters that are always used to throw the attention off the issue at hand.
Need examples? Abortion. Gay Marriage. Gun Rights. Not to say that these are not important issues, they are. I think they are trivialized each time they are thrown into the political spectrum just to get voters on one side or the other based on what you believe on these emotionally charged topics. They need to have their own forums, their own discussions, and their own time to be the ONLY issue. But that never happens.
Why? Because of actions like when a senator yells “Baby Killer” in the voting process of the current health care bill. He is setting up another prefect example of getting the American public off what the true issue is: lack of a solid, fair health care system, and onto the worry that everyone is going to have free rain to abort pregnancies.
Whatever you choose to believe, why can’t we have a little more faith in human kind that we are all not baby killers regardless of our social, political, religious, and financial positions, opinions, and beliefs in life?
It is this insecurity and ignorance that politicians play on. We are getting nowhere. I am so frustrated by the fact that politicians use the tactics to hide the really hideous problems in our government.
But you can bet the Tea Party Protesters will be out there fighting taxes for a program that will likely help most of those with picket signs in their hands. Why don’t you have a tea party against the astronomical pork barrel spending and wasteful use of state and government tax revenue? Why don't you protest the fact that our children's education systems are failing? That our teachers are paid at poverty level? Why don't you protest the injustice, not the issue that will take some of the injustice out of our healthcare program? Protest the right issue!
But will we ever get so far as to protest the injustices that truly matter? So long as senators are yelling “Liar” and “Baby Killer” and generally not willing to do anything to improve the gridlock fight between Democrats and Republicans, I guess the American Public can expect no less of a similar argument over the wrong issues.
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