Understanding Freedom, Or Not

Recent events on college campuses and political rallies have brought about questions concerning freedom of speech. What does our constitution really mean when it says we have the freedom to verbally express ourselves in whatever way we see fit, without fear of retribution from people or organizations that disagree with us?

It seems that some people interpret it to include intimidation, shouting down dissenting opinions or disrupting gatherings where differing ideas are being espoused. To literally go up on a platform and take the microphone away from a person making a speech and have to be forcefully removed.

That has nothing to do with freedom of speech and everything to do with fascism, violating another person's right to express their own opinion just because you disagree. The other person's right to say what they want is protected by the same law that protects yours and you are violating his constitutional rights when you deny him the opportunity to express it.

The early communist party had a whole set of protocols for taking over a meeting. They placed operatives around the room in strategic points to make it appear that most of the crowd was in agreement with them. They turned violent when they felt it suited their purposes and were masters at intimidation.

The people who stopped the rally in Chicago the other night didn't just violate the constitutional rights of a political candidate; they denied the constitutional rights of the people who were there to hear him speak.

Adolph Hitler started the Nazi Party on a shoestring and the kind of hate that is hatched in the halls of hell itself.

Germany was in a financial quandary, totally run away inflation, fiscal upheaval and civil unrest, creating a climate for someone who claimed to have the answers and a scapegoat to blame Germany's woes on, to come forth and lead.

Many of the Jews in Germany - due to their own hard work and business acumen - had become affluent and Hitler blamed Germany's problems on them.

Hitler blamed the Jews, but their side could not even be heard because they were physically prevented from doing so, sought out and beaten and finally rounded up, loaded in boxcars and taken to death camps.

Hitler surrounded himself with toughs and thugs called Brownshirts who disrupted any public gathering that went against Hitler, intimidating the opposition to the point that it just disappeared. Only one point of view was allowed in Germany, the point of view of Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party, and soon even a breath of criticism against either could well result in a midnight knock and a one-way trip to oblivion.

The people in North Korea are probably the most oppressed in the world, a human being's life there is worth nothing to the "Dear Leader" and there are work camps where the inmates are literally starved and worked to death.

And why? Because a long time ago, somebody decided that their ideas didn't count and they were suppressed and intimidated and forced to fall in line.

The organized disruption of public gatherings has nothing to do with freedom of speech; it has nothing to do with fairness or liberty. It's only a handful of radicals who know their ideas will not be willingly accepted by society and are determined to shove them down America's throats by disruption, intimidation and violence.

Fascism is dangerous school of thought, and the more it's tolerated, the more it's encouraged and financed by opposing political organizations, the wider spread it will become.

And one has to look no farther than what happened to George Wallace and Ronald Reagan and others to understand that individuals cannot be allowed to approach a political candidate and that those who try should be handled in whatever way it takes to totally subdue them, up to and including bodily harm if a weapon is involved.

There is a place for dissent, there is a time for protesting and many positive things have been accomplished by civil disobedience, with the accent on civil.

But there is no place in a civilized, law-abiding society for those who only want to suppress, intimidate and disrupt.

Another good one from Mar. 7th.

True Colors
Mar 7 | Posted by: Charlie | Tags: Donald Trump, Elections, Politics

First of all, let me preface this by saying that it is not an endorsement for any presidential candidate nor political party, but simply my observations of a political process that has the potential of tearing an old political machine to pieces and exposing the power players and deal makers for the greedy control hungry, self-serving characters they really are.

When Mitt Romney made his now famous “anybody but Trump” speech I saw a man, for who I had great respect, strip away the facade and join the ranks of those who consider themselves the arbiters of what the Republican party should be and that a candidate who could not be depended on to be under the thumb of the entrenched power brokers and politicians would be a danger to that image.

With all the charm of a petulant wet noodle, Romney informed us that Donald Trump would be a nightmare president, he would be bad for the country, translated into plain language, he would be bad for the elitist Republican Party, which has spent a fortune and expended much of their relevance trying to push an establishment candidate down the throats of a fed up America that isn’t buying their promises anymore.

The Republicans are in a dilemma of their own making.

Barack Obama went into office controlling both houses of Congress and the Republicans promised us that if they could just gain control of the legislative branch they would come out swinging.

Well, that happened and nothing else did. It was business as usual for the Obama Administration, the Republicans went along with just about anything he wanted to do, confirming his far left judicial appointees, passing his back breaking budgets, twiddling their fingers while he all but decimated the military, knuckled under to his presidential fiat legislation, allowing the National Debt to double, same sex marriage, funded Planned Parenthood’s macabre organ harvesting and wholesale abortion practices, and the list goes on and on.

And now, this same party expects Americans to sit back and let them buy another establishment candidate’s way into running for president.

The very thought that a maverick candidate like Donald Trump, whose unconventional style of shoot ‘em down in the street and take no prisoners politics, who has funded his own campaign while they’ve spent untold millions trying to kill his candidacy absolutely terrifies the powers that be.

Because, whatever else he represents, he sure represents change, and not the campaign slogan, lip service kind, but real change and a machine-crushing blow to the balance of power.

The American electorate has forsaken all the establishment’s fair-haired boys in favor of a self-financed billionaire and a Senator from Texas who had the audacity to go against the flow in Washington.

That’s something the old-line machine establishment is going to have to accept.

Times change, people change, electorates get fed up with watching the same old tired and jaded, ‘tow the party line” candidates dragged out every four years, makers of empty promises, talking out of both sides of their mouths; promising much, but delivering nothing.

Time to shake things up and no matter what Mitt Romney or any other establishment mouthpiece says, if Trump or Cruz make it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there will be a shakeup.

People across this country are mad, they want something different, something they understand and they are ready to fight the dark suits and gray heads who call the shots.

“Come Senators and Congressmen
Pay heed to the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he who gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it’s raging
It will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changing” - Bob Dylan

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

http://www.charliedaniels.com/posts/03-07-16/true-colors

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