who cares if you are offended?

Question

So last week Bush outlawed protesting at soldier funnerals. last week or so, anyway. Why? To give peace to the people who are there? Look, i think its wrong and disrepectful of the protesters to demonstrate in this fashion but so what? What happened to freedom of expression? the right to protest. freedom of speech? people are so up with political correctness that they don't ever take care of real problems. who cares if someone is naked on national TV? Or says ***? com'on, public! screw your personal beliefs and let the government handle real essential problems and real law enforcement.

i admit its sick. but you start to chizzel away at one thing, and you are making it easier and easier for them to take rights away under guise of protection of the people. it may not be popular, but they have a right. otherwise why are kkk and black panther organizations allowed to exsist

obscene language? what makes obscene language? who decides what that is? the FCC? Bush? People with kids? Vulgar is a word that descirbes how the common people spoke when we were divided by nobles and such

Answer 1

well... to me... it's about the law and interpretation of the law... and consistently legislating the law in accordance with the constitution...

I mean... is it hurting anyone? I don't know the exactly law, so it could be constitutional, but what little I do know of it, it seems sketchy...

so the government spent all this time legislating it... then they arrest someone... it goes through the courts and gets appealed and so forth... over and over again.. until.... it finally is overturned

between the money we spend on legislators legislating the law, lawyers defending it and police executing the law... it's millions... and then it would seem to be overturned... all that for nothing?

I mean... I think the protesters are bastards and crazy... but so is the KKK... and everyone must have the same rights...

Answer 2

A military funeral is a place for the honoring of the deceased service member and his or her memory. The only people that should allowed there are friends, familey, other miltitary personel and of course the funeral detail and religious person leading the ceremony.
The general American public should only be allowed there in a peaceful, unbiased fashion.

Protesting at a funeral of anyone should not be allowed, and those who do should be arrested with full charges put on them.

A funeral is the wrong place to try to make political statements, or beliefs. It is disrespectful.

Answer 3

People do have a right to assemble, but people also have a right to grieve in peace without someone making a political spectacle of their loved one's death. That's has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with common decency and not disturbing the peace. Go protest somewhere else. Just so you know, there are certain things that ARE NOT protected in the 2nd Amendment. Like, hate speech. Or, words to provoke immediate negaitve action(example- hey, let's go burn down that guy's house!)
Obsence language or behavior is not protected either.

Answer 4

This is about respect and being thankful for the sacrifices of the soldiers. Political correctness has nothing to do with it. I don't particularly like the president, but I can respect him for outlawing these protests. That funeral is supposed to be a time for the family to say goodbye, not to deal with some protester saying that their son/daughter died because God is punishing them. That's disrespectful to the soldier, the family, and the military. Put yourself in the shoes of that family. Wouldn't you be peeved if someone made comments how your child deserved to die? I know I would.

Answer 5

Kimberly is correct. This one particular hate group gopes from funeral to funeral of gay deceased military and spouts their venom at a time of greving for the ones left behind. Frankly, I'm suprised they can't be prosecuted under some "hate crimes" statute.

I am for free speech. I am also for the right to privacy. Where they conflict, and the deceased is not a public figure, the protestors ought to be kept a respectful distance away to air their views, so as not to injure the family.

Bush is not in favor of free speech. He likes secrecy and loathes criticism, so its not surprising that he would come down against free speech.

Furthermore, this is a Congress that would rather waste time trying to amend the frigging Constitution to ban gay marriage than balance the budget, provide aid for veterans, try to do something about global warming, etc. Are you really surprised?

Answer 6

I very much agree with you. The government is way to much up in our business. Making laws daily that take our personal freedoms away. Why did the people who started this country fight and die just for freedom. So our government can gain too much power and take them away one by one. They use securtiy now as a tool to make more laws and spy on our phone calls. People are such wimps now. They are so scared of the damn terrorist they are practically throwing thier freedoms away for a little peice of securtiy. Come on America. Grow some balls. What happened to this country.

Answer 7

I care if those who've lost a family member in defense of our nation are offended at their time of grief. Our constitutional rights to protest are not infringed upon - you may still protest all you want. But we have limited protests in terms of location before in this society (distances from political figures, events, etc) and so this changes nothing with respect to that.

Answer 8

There is no absolute freedom of speech, there are many areas where speech is restricted, if it would cause a uproar, the old crying fire in a movie theather,

You can't use Jesus name in a school much any more and so on.

This is only respectful anyone who would protest a funeral needs to be in jail, not merely restricted.

Answer 9

Freedom of expression? It's not absolute. Try calling the most liberal judge around a ******* bastard in court and see how fast your butt gets thrown in jail.

Personally, rather than this law, I would rather that people would go and kneecap these creeps, and then the local cop standing right there say, "Didn't see nuthin'." Nothing a little violence and official negligence couldn't handle.

Answer 10

Dear, you realize that naked people and cussing denotes the complete downfall of society, right?

As for these losers who protest at military funerals... there are limits to free speech. You can't yell "FIRE" in a theater, you can't yell "BOMB" on an airplane, and you can't protest a persons funeral. There is NO reason to do so. The people who protest aren't even anti-war people, like I would expect Cindy Sheehan to do (of course, she wouldn't dare, KNOWING the cost of war) they are nutjobs who are anti-gay.

OUR PERSONAL BELIEFS ARE WHAT KEEP THIS COUNTRY AFLOAT. IT IS NOT SOLELY THE DEMOCRACY, IT IS THAT WE ARE A PEOPLE OF PRINCIPLE AND VALUE. YOU KNOW, MORALS? SOMETHING YOU CLEARLY DO NOT HAVE.