Awesome word Juliette. Thank you. We are free to speak in this country and free to turn from listening to others speak their freedom. But they are free to speak.
True freedom goes both ways, we can't be free unless we let others be free. Not free to tyrannize, but free to walk and talk within the law. And otherwise known as "the golden rule."
As long as conservatives as a group defend ALL aspects of the US Constitution and as elected representatives, they uphold those principles, we can call them conservatives. As in, conserving the Found Principles of an ordered American society.
Many republicans are really democrats as Dan Bongino says, but no democrats are really republicans. Thus, this 2-tiered justice era we are in is troubling as we see principled (ahem!) R's like a Bill Barr, Chris Christie, or Andrew McCarthy saying Donald Trump is guilty (of something) but, have nothing to say about Hillary's past, or the Biden's present, throw in Adam Schiff's serial lying (and James Comey and those 51 signers) without consequence and the media covering all of them against the law and the reality on the ground.
It's WHY us in the middle are pissed. We depend upon a consistently fair and knowable justice system based upon rules both sides are to follow. The rules right now only seem to be followed regionally and God forbid you end up in a federal court on the east coast. We're back in a Union vs Confederacy era except the confederates won't admit they're practicing confederacy. "It's not really happening, but it's great that it is" is their current mantra.
Very well said, Juliette. The entire concept of free speech, means you may abhor the speech, but you get the concept that freedom of speech, means freedom of abhorrent speech as well. I, too, was disturbed by some of Bundy's words, but on the other hand, as a property rights advocate, I can't change my view on the concept of the 5th Amendment and private property, just because someone says something awful. The same for anti-Semitic speech. Terribly hurtful to me as a Jew, but that doesn't mean I won't still apply the same principal to freedoms granted by the Constitution.
Awesome word Juliette. Thank you. We are free to speak in this country and free to turn from listening to others speak their freedom. But they are free to speak.
True freedom goes both ways, we can't be free unless we let others be free. Not free to tyrannize, but free to walk and talk within the law. And otherwise known as "the golden rule."
human nature being what it is, everyone has a tendency to be a hypocrite
Agreed.
Freedom = conservatism. Good post. Thanks
Charles was here!
As long as conservatives as a group defend ALL aspects of the US Constitution and as elected representatives, they uphold those principles, we can call them conservatives. As in, conserving the Found Principles of an ordered American society.
Many republicans are really democrats as Dan Bongino says, but no democrats are really republicans. Thus, this 2-tiered justice era we are in is troubling as we see principled (ahem!) R's like a Bill Barr, Chris Christie, or Andrew McCarthy saying Donald Trump is guilty (of something) but, have nothing to say about Hillary's past, or the Biden's present, throw in Adam Schiff's serial lying (and James Comey and those 51 signers) without consequence and the media covering all of them against the law and the reality on the ground.
It's WHY us in the middle are pissed. We depend upon a consistently fair and knowable justice system based upon rules both sides are to follow. The rules right now only seem to be followed regionally and God forbid you end up in a federal court on the east coast. We're back in a Union vs Confederacy era except the confederates won't admit they're practicing confederacy. "It's not really happening, but it's great that it is" is their current mantra.
Very well said, Juliette. The entire concept of free speech, means you may abhor the speech, but you get the concept that freedom of speech, means freedom of abhorrent speech as well. I, too, was disturbed by some of Bundy's words, but on the other hand, as a property rights advocate, I can't change my view on the concept of the 5th Amendment and private property, just because someone says something awful. The same for anti-Semitic speech. Terribly hurtful to me as a Jew, but that doesn't mean I won't still apply the same principal to freedoms granted by the Constitution.