A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of. |
As a radio talk show host, I can say things no one else will because they are worried about being ostracized socially or on the job. I don't avoid controversy. My job is to stir it up. |
Factually, his statement is correct, ... If someone is offended by that, I think that is their problem. I think he ought to stand fast. At the most say, 'I could've chose my words more carefully, but I do stand by what I say.' |
followers of Karl Marx |
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. |
Freedom isn't for wimps. |
Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job |
Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job |
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority. |
How many of you want the federal government out of your paycheck? |
How'd you like to get the federal government out of your paycheck? |
If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you. |
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. |
In a society where equal protection under the law is supposed to be the noble standard, there is no room to create different classes of victims. Hate-crime legislation places a different, government-assigned value on the life, liberty, and property rights of people based on their color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, physical ability, or whatever. . . It is not the role of the federal government to . . . protect me from hate. |
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob [and occasionally the lynch mob] - ruled. |