After all arent we in a free country? Didnt our forefathers fight to give us these freedoms? So what makes me a terrorist for questioning my government?
2006-07-19 20:14:54 · 8 answers · asked by robert e 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
because name-calling is the last crutch of the inarticulate. Further, those who claim "government can do no wrong" are often paid stooges by the people in power as part of their marketing effort to maintain control. They are not worth responding to, let alone engage in a meaningful conversation.
2006-07-19 20:26:12 · answer #1 · answered by interstate_101 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Goodness sake, but I hear this one every once in a while and am amazed at the utter lack of understanding of what free speech is.
YOU are free to question your government.
THEY are free to respond. You don't have a right to censor their free speech. They did not silence yours. They called you a name. Sometimes, those names are true.
I've looked at your questions. Wouldn't raise my ire (nothing really does), but I also wouldn't call you a terrorist. I'm not sure I'd even call you seditious, but I didn't look too closely.
But if I did, I would also be exercising my free speech rights. Would you silence me, or them? Is that the free speech you want?
At the same time, your present question is a good one (the first part, not the second where you brought in freedom as a reason why they should call you a terrorist).
You have to defend yourself and your ideas, and I applaud you for not resorting to calling them names in the question as they did you (I hope you, like most sane adults, don't decide how you feel by what people call you. Most of us left that behind in high school if not earlier).
I disagree with some of your views. Don't stop. Every country needs brakes, even when the gas is what is really needed.
I stand with you and defend your free speech. Even when I call you seditious (which I don't think I've seen in your questions).
Keep speaking up, all sides. It's what makes us free.
2006-07-19 20:39:27 · answer #2 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a tactic used by nutcase conservatives. If you don't tow the party line then your anti-American.
It's their way of guilt tripping us into supporting Bush. These are the same war dodging Clinton bashing weirdo's.
I love it when they try to justify the Iraq war by playing the 9/11 card. First it was "Saddam has WMD's". Then when that didn't work they went to "remember 9/11". Of course Saddam didn't have anything to do with that, but hey, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Conservatives try so hard to either guilt trip you or scare you in supporting Bush and the war. And if you have no fears they'll be more then happy to give you some.
2006-07-19 20:27:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a BIG difference between questioning and undermining. Look at the New York Times, who instead of giving plausable arguements against the war, just get in the way of it.
2006-07-19 20:19:21 · answer #4 · answered by chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like in the old days. When I was a kid, it was towards the end of the cold war, and the worst thing you could call another kid was a 'commie'.
It's name-calling. It's immature by nature. Ignore it.
2006-07-19 20:20:33 · answer #5 · answered by foofoo19472 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHY? Because your society live in ideology of Terrorism, so you have to accept ideology or take the consequences. Ideology doesn't stand of questioning different ideas.
2006-07-19 21:23:00 · answer #6 · answered by nelli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Super not true. I mean, not like thy chuck bombs anywhere.
2006-07-19 20:18:52 · answer #7 · answered by alvinyprime 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are not.
2006-07-19 20:20:56 · answer #8 · answered by pianist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋