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Originally posted by Lerkfish: speech. (sorry, a pet peeve of mine) Normal consequences are fine. out of proportion consequences are not fine. At least with me. As an example, a local radio station had people to call in whether they would be more likely to be war protestors or more likely to run over war protestors with a humvee on their way to work. yes, meant to be funny, but obviously a more mean-spirited threat implied. My problem is more and more people threatening people who oppose war with violence, or expulsion for excercising their rights to peaceably assemble in protest. |
That underscores my point that the level of confrontation and beligerence shown by both sides demonstrates something is wrong with the social fabric, not necessarily with the government or Liberty.
I'm shocked that people can't find a way of dealing with differences of opinion other than resorting to the kind of crap we've seen (like your radio show example). What's wrong with people when they resort to that kind of crap?
I think we should be worried about government infringing on our Liberty (Patriot Acts I & II), but perhaps I'm more concerned with what's happening to Americans themselves.