Americanpolitics

The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America reads as follows:

“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Justice – impartiality, evenhandedness, righteousness

Domestic Tranquility – harmony of nation’s internal affairs, calm on the home front

Welfare – wellbeing; happiness; a condition with respect to health, safety, happiness or prospering.

Blessings – approval or good wishes; help believed to come from God or another deity.

Liberty – freedom; right to choose, think or act without being constrained by necessity of force.

Freedom of Speech gives you the right to say what you feel but like any other freedom, obviously, it has its dark side that is coming to light with a vengeance in the attempt to discredit and disrespect the President of the United States – transparency is succeeding in more ways than one. Freedom of speech is, to a large degree, negating the very preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America.

I have never seen the amount of propaganda directed at any president, as I have with the first Black President of this so called great country. At this point I am questioning the “greatness” of this country as well as the intent of those who spread the propaganda.

Woodrow T. Wilson once said, “I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.”

While this definitely holds true in our society today, I also recognize, with “freedom of speech” running rampant via blogs and social media venues, that there are a lot of fools out there and that’s a scary realization.

Soren Kierkegaard, who is generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher, once said, “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

It is obvious to me, by the things being said against President Obama, the words of ignorance spoken in the presence of a “teachable moment” that occurred recently and the verbalized desire that the President fail, that while freedom of speech is running rampant, there is very little thought behind the words and even less truth behind the words – but this is ok because as long as people are exercising their “freedom of speech” lies are not relevant only the freedom to spread the lies is relevant.

So let me get this straight in my head. I have the right to verbalize and spread any irrational, untruth to whomever I feel, knowing that there could be grave consequences to the lies I spread and the irreconcilable damages I may subject others to, based on the lies I tell.

Yet, if these same irrational, liars decide that I do not have the right to choose abortion, if I feel this is not the time for me to have a baby, they have the last word; these same irrational, liars think they can dissuade me from taking a lover/partner of the same sex because they deem it “not right”; these same irrational, liars feel they can take away my choices, on a very personal level, but feel totally justified in the spreading of lies through the concept of “freedom of speech” with the intent of creating division, hate and violence but that’s ok.

Finally, Hansell B. Duckett once said, “What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.” Never have truer words been uttered and as far back as maybe 20 B.C, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a Greek Historian once said, “Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”

Where are the lines on freedom drawn and who determines what is “right” for me, the individual. If I am not permitted to make my own decisions regarding my own body, for there was a time I, being female, could not make the decision to get my tubes tied without the consent of my husband and the conversation regarding abortion still rages with those against abortion willing to take a life, to prevent the taking of a life – is this irrational or what?

Even though I am straight, there are many who are not “straight” (even that term is twisted, with connotations of not being quite right – it implies a state of being “warped” “perverted” or “crooked”), so who gives the majority the right to make the decision, for me, regarding who I choose as a life partner or my sexual preference, in my own life, in an attempt to determine, for me, a personal decision on who is allowable to be my life partner.

There are those who are still intent on choosing, for blacks, where they can work and live. Although this is more veiled than overt, the cycle manifests itself in the inequalities of employment causing a disparaging difference in the amount of money I can make, limiting my availability to live where I choose.

Just like the “fundamental right” to bear arms has gotten out of control, so too has freedom of speech; when freedom of speech is tinged with propaganda, lies, distortions, misrepresentations, control, manipulations you become no better than the communists and dictators of other countries.

Freedom of speech should come with responsibilities to truth or at least well thought out, researched, commentary but like all “freedoms” people take them, as they are taking free speech, a step further than they need to and the reigning in of freedoms begins. I pity the person with no internal controls, no rational thought processes, no morality, no sense of right and wrong, lies and truth.

Everybody cries free speech but everyone is not willing to allow free speech when that free speech does not coincide with what they think or feel. When I voice my opinions, based on my experiences as a Black American, I am called a racist by some white Americans who take what I say personally, as though I am speaking directly to them and them alone (me thinks you protest too much).

When I use the term “white American” in a collective sense, those who are most guilty are offended by my use of this collective term as though I am assaulting them personally, I am judged and harassed by those same people, exerting their “freedom of speech” who use the terms Liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Conservative, etc., in the same “collective” manner.

I pity those who, themselves, are easily persuaded, manipulated and controlled under the guise of “freedom,” like the American people are demonstrating they are every time they open their mouths, pick up a pen or type on their keyboards, demonstrating, in the words of Woodrow Wilson their capacity, no more than capacity – it’s more a need, to advertise their foolishness.

I pity those who sit in their little glass houses showing me how narrow minded and truly racist they are by attempting to project their racism back at me by taking personal, my words instead of recognizing the concept of “collective” they use in their decriptions of others the way I use white Americans “collectively.”

Even when I say some white Americans, it does not matter because those that are most racist will still attempt to project that racist attitude on to me. It is ok for you to group people, but when you are part of the ones being grouped you show your indignation with name calling and projection.

You do not have a clue - keep writing and showing your foolishness because if no one else sees you for who you are I do. You can not have it both ways, either you believe in free speech, where I am equally entitled as well as you, or forfeit your rights to spread your lies and your ability to “collectively group.”

And that’s the way I see it!!!

Current/Future Hiro Bobblehead

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