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To: Olog-hai

Biden epitomizes the horrible idea this society has that freedom includes license to do wrong (tell an untruth).

Conservative understanding knows that one may have the power to tell an untruth, but not the right to do so.

What a world the leftist idiots live in.


5 posted on 05/04/2014 12:27:47 AM PDT by amihow
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To: amihow
Conservative understanding knows that one may have the power to tell an untruth, but not the right to do so.

I would not state it this way because you most certainly have the RIGHT to lie outside of an oath. However, what you also have is the RESPONSIBILITY of that lie's consequences and this is where democrats are such blatant unaccountable pricks...of course only for their own which includes the MSM.

Compare it to Donald Sterling's racism and then you'll see how hypocritical we've become as a society.

14 posted on 05/04/2014 4:54:02 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: amihow
Biden epitomizes the horrible idea this society has that freedom includes license to do wrong (tell an untruth). Conservative understanding knows that one may have the power to tell an untruth, but not the right to do so.

The root of this is a misunderstanding of the First Amendment, which is inculcated in our government-run schools. Freedom is conflated with license.

17 posted on 05/04/2014 5:16:05 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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