But wait, don�t we?
Didn�t we fight for our freedom?
Wasn�t our country founded by people who were trying to escape persecution?
Why is it that a person only has the freedom of speech when they are speaking what is generally allowed by the government and politics? We shouldn�t be afraid if we don�t blindly follow the leaders of our country. America is not a dictatorship or a monarch or an Empire that believes that the leader is next in line to God.
We don�t practice �Emperor Worship� any more.
Or do we? Have we come so far that we�ve returned to a time where some people are so much above the law that they must be worshiped and if you go against them you�re lost to the world?
This is America and if you can�t be free here, where can you?
Let�s all take a minute and go back in time. It�s the 2000 Presidential elections. It looks like Gore has won the popular vote. But wait! Florida, whose governor just happens to be a Bush, seems to be having problems with the vote count. Turns out that Bush wins after all. How many people were upset that Bush won in such an unbecoming manner?
How many people are upset that, like his father, Bush can�t seem to finish anything before moving on and starting fights with somebody else? General opinion doesn�t mean much though does it? As long as they are kept relatively quite and the world doesn�t know that the majority of Americans no longer whole-heartedly support our �grand leader� no one cares. But if someone with influence says something against the �supreme leader� then God forbidden they ever show their faces again.
The Chicks haven�t said anything that half of America hasn�t thought. They just believed in their country enough to think that they have the right to say what they feel. Not that it should matter considering that the comment against Bush wasn�t even made in the country let alone on the same continent.
We need to remember that this is America. If you don�t like what someone has to say, you have the right not to hear it. You have the freedom of speech to talk back to them. There are too many problems out there that needs addressing to be picking fights in the schoolyard. Instead of worrying about what everyone says and thinks, why don�t we worry about reducing crime? Making sure that our children are safe and fed? Let�s get murderers of the street and find world peace then you can be the �thought police� and tell everyone what to think.
Until then, deal with it.
You go girls. This is America. Speak your minds because you speak for a lot of people who are too afraid to or can�t be heard.
Bravo. Keep up the good work.
