what has happened to free speech. with each passing day more americans are being ostratracized and attacked for speaking out against the war and gorege bush.
the constitiution allows us to express our fellings freely, to speak up and speak out. unfortunately many of you will attack those who speak the truth or those who simply have an opinion.
in a very strange bit of irony in the country that most offers freedom its citizens seem unable to cope with the freedom that is given.
due to our inability respect and understand others words i fear that one day freedom of speech will be a thing of the past and we will live in an orwellian nightmare of government control.
jean paul sarte said that "man is condemed to be free". can we handle our freedom, is free speech important any more and are we ready to give up our lives to government control.
i love my freedom and i dont want to see it diluted or destroyed by those who do not apreciate or respect it.
2007-05-29 18:24:11 · 14 answers · asked by "GoSANE" 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
Yes, we have to listen to this double speak from our elected things. We already are living in an Orwellian nightmare, just count the number of cameras watching you on your way home from work. (Just who is it that is sitting for hours watching these video inputs? What exactly is it they are doing with them?)
But in regards to your question we don’t need to worry about the people handling free speech as we won’t have it for long anyway. The congress will be passing the ADL hate speech bill and it will be all over!
You don’t really think they want us to have free speech do you? No it gets in the way of the new world order’s plans!
2007-05-29 18:49:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
"Ostratracizing and attacking" is another form of free speech.
Firing someone because you might lose sponsors is a business's right. No one is being kept from saying exactly what they want to say. But people can respond in any way they like because of the same freedom of speech.
When are people going to *understand* freedom of speech? This is the tragedy of this whole issue. People come up with these bizarre 'police state', 'McCarthyism" statements and they just don't understand what freedom of speech is.
2007-05-30 02:58:43 · answer #2 · answered by tttplttttt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free speech has gotten to a point in our country where people can openly threaten people lives, threaten revolution, threaten our way of life etc. Now you tell me where in the Bill of Rights you have the right to threaten anybody or anything. Free Speech is to be used with common sense and unfortunately some Americans have no common sense whatsoever.
2007-05-30 10:12:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very important insight. In time of "WAR" the government has the ability to take all our rights away and it is for our "OWN GOOD", at least that's what they say. We are giving up rights to privacy, search and seizure, due process to just name the big ones. There is a responsibility that comes with freedom and one of the responsibilities we have is protest, we need to resist such authority. You see the people of Iraq and how they are handling their new freedoms. At least they have not become apathetic to a imposed system of government. I hope they can find a way to democracy after nearly fifteen hundred years of clerical rule. For them it took a dictator to keep the peace. He was a tyrant and now we have to wonder where is our administration going with our freedoms.
2007-05-30 01:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by Pablo 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Do or say whatever you are man enough to do. How simple is that? No one is censoring you on Yahoo Answers. If you are against the philosophy of the Republican Party just say so and quit eluding to some major conspiracy. My freedoms are not so delicate and fragile it doesn't require anyone's appreciation or respect. We don't build our foundation on glass.
2007-05-30 11:57:34 · answer #5 · answered by make room for daddy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All governments are tyrannical in nature because all laws are enforced by the barrel of the gun. As soon as you realize that, you will understand the only way to oppose tyranny is to not recognize the authority of men.
2007-05-30 04:59:25 · answer #6 · answered by The law is a form of tyranny. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for an eloquent defense of each man's right to think his own thought and express them privately and freely to others; what is left out by Mr. Bush, who opposes freedom of thought and speech by his hirelings and by his opponents--is that the regulation of non-fictional speech and writings must categorically differentiate between beliefs on the one hand and attested facts, standards-based value assertions and attempted scientific-form proofs on the other.
I suggest the case is already much worse than you know. Such an assertion is treason in itself, I suggest, to our constitution's creators and to their intention; coupled with slanders, assertions that those who disagree with his administration "don't understand", "are less intelligent", or "haven't thought about something in the right way" is defamation of character or outright lying.
Yes, this is a frightening way to "lead" a formerly free nation of constitutional selves. Herein, government's powers--a president's powers especially--are handed over to governmentally-employed citizens solely for the purpose of making them capable of protecting individual rights to live, to enjoy freedom from collectivistic dictators and being at liberty to set prioritized value goals and work toward them.
Is this what Mr. Bush is doing--protecting individuals' rights? Or are he and his party of unstrategic thieves handing over billions to millionaire corporations, financial tsars and media dictators--and stealing the money and power from the rest of us, who are smarter, more moral and more ethical by far?
2007-05-31 02:00:56 · answer #7 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Like everything else he does, he runs his administration on belittling Americans and fear. I just ignore him. The government can't tell me what to think because I have a mind of my own.
2007-05-30 10:26:40 · answer #8 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
zogby poll show that 3 out of 4 of our soldiers want us to withdrawl within a year, so in essence they are speaking out against bush. is he calling the soldiers terrorists?
http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=12827
2007-05-30 12:43:44 · answer #9 · answered by steve h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The vocal minority in our country are afraid of people who think in absolutes. That's the only parallel they can draw Bush to Hitler.
If your afraid of a "clear line in the sand" the move to a place where everything is acceptable. I heard France is a great place for that. Wait, they just elected a pro-Bush conservative. I guess government need a good direction and strong convictions to lead.
2007-05-30 01:33:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋