Free Speech

There has been a small item in the news the last couple of days that I just have to comment on. It has to do with the bunch of nuts that live in Kansas who take it upon themselves to show up at military funerals and say hateful things about the service members who have been killed. They have placards and signs that say things like "Thank God for IED's" and "God Hates You". and other other hateful slogans. Their whole "jist" for lack of a better term is to protest the militarise policy concerning gays. I assume they think the military is pro-gay rights or something of that nature. Having served in the military I can tell you that the "rank-in-file" of the military do not want gays serving with them. Yes, I realize that gays have served in our military for as long as we've had a military but most of the service members don't want them around if given a choice.

Now, I must say that I believe in the right of free speech. These soldiers, whether they know it or not, put their lives on the line to protect such things as the right to speak our mind. I'm exercising my right to free speech by writing this blog and I will continue to do so until the Lord takes me home. One of the reasons we are free is because we have the God given right to speak our mind in public.

Now, the other side of the coin ought to be that an individual or group must face the consequences for stating their opinion, whether they be good or bad. Our courts have gone far out of their way to protect free speech from any repercussions whether they be from the government or private individuals. The whole intent of the "right" was to protect the individual from repercussions from the government, not from the individual. There was a time, in my lifetime, that most folks understood that you could get your ass whipped for stating your opinion. Yes, it was understood that you had a right to your opinion and you could state your opinion, but there would be consequences one way or another.

I've wrote, many times, about the sissyfication of America. We live in a country with a bunch of wimpy men who have forgotten what it is to be a man. We live in a society where the first protection most people seek is through either law enforcement or a lawyer, and not necessarily in that order. The liberal loon left has had almost absolute control of our country for several decades and we are all reaping the rewards of that. You can argue that point but you'd be wrong. The liberals have controlled the media, most all of our public universities, and all our public schools and they have won the hearts and minds of millions of Americans. What's bad is that most people don't even know it. I've asked lots of our young people about their thoughts on global warming and they sound like a commercial for Al Gore. Ask most of our young people about universal health care and they can quote Barack Obama and they think he's right. Yet, the same kids that you question will tell you that they are conservatives! Ha!

Now, back to the original point of this post. I have two children in the military right now. One of them is headed to Afghanistan and the other to the UAE; all this is happening in the next two or three months. If one of them happens to come home in a flag draped coffin, there better not be any of those folks from Kansas out there with their signs. I can guarantee you they would suffer the consequences for exercising their free speech and we'd see how far up someones "never-mind" a sign-post would fit.