I put a post on Dr.Desmet sub stack on Saturday, and got two responses. This was my post. I was born in 1965 and not until about 4 or so years ago I took my first amendments freedom of speech for granted. Being the last son of a WW2 vet that was shot in the back you would think I would have been more aware than most of how ultimately imp…
I put a post on Dr.Desmet sub stack on Saturday, and got two responses. This was my post. I was born in 1965 and not until about 4 or so years ago I took my first amendments freedom of speech for granted. Being the last son of a WW2 vet that was shot in the back you would think I would have been more aware than most of how ultimately important the freedom of speech is. Most Americans don’t realize the importance of speech and the threat our country is under. A quote from Harry Truman, “once a government is committed to the principles of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens, and creates a country where everyone lives in fear”. I honestly don’t think violence is necessary to fix this. But for a government official to break his or her oath to uphold our constitution, arrests, prosecutions, and jail times will be the only deterrent for these totalitarians that stand before us. Two people responded to me, one told me isn’t jailing someone violence. After a few back and fourths I asked a simple question should there be no justice he gave up on me. The other said America violently took this land from the Indians. Of coarse every land in the world was at one time conquered. All of Europe was one time Rome. He wouldn’t respond to me what conquered land he occupied. I would not be surprised if he lived on land that America liberated. Hard to watch the sacrifice of our soldiers for so many people that are ungrateful.
The leftys that respond this way (jailing is violence) seem to have no problem at all jailing conservatives who don't agree with them. I guess it's different when they do it. After all they are on a much higher moral plain than we are..... Just ask them, they'll tell you. /sarc
To be honest, there doesn't appear to be any way to stop the left from projecting what they are actually doing onto their opposition short of inflicting some kind of real physical pain. They appear so willfully ignorant that any amount of reasonable argument just runs off their backs like water off a duck.
The first person who wanted me to say putting a person in jail is violent was dumbfounded when I said jailing a person for political speech or thought is violence but putting a murderer in jail is justice. He then said this isn’t going to work you can’t depend on other people for justice. I then asked a simple question “then should there be no justice?” and he abruptly said I didn’t say that. I said I know I just asked you a simple question. That was the end of the conversation.
I don’t know why Dr. Nash I no longer get email notifications on likes and replies on Dr. Malones sub stack only. This is the only place I can edit. Tried settings but everything seems to be on
Wish I could help but the computer age and I are not friends. I have had the very same thing happen and do not know why or how it fixed itself but was never anything I did. Hang in there and maybe…
I put a post on Dr.Desmet sub stack on Saturday, and got two responses. This was my post. I was born in 1965 and not until about 4 or so years ago I took my first amendments freedom of speech for granted. Being the last son of a WW2 vet that was shot in the back you would think I would have been more aware than most of how ultimately important the freedom of speech is. Most Americans don’t realize the importance of speech and the threat our country is under. A quote from Harry Truman, “once a government is committed to the principles of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens, and creates a country where everyone lives in fear”. I honestly don’t think violence is necessary to fix this. But for a government official to break his or her oath to uphold our constitution, arrests, prosecutions, and jail times will be the only deterrent for these totalitarians that stand before us. Two people responded to me, one told me isn’t jailing someone violence. After a few back and fourths I asked a simple question should there be no justice he gave up on me. The other said America violently took this land from the Indians. Of coarse every land in the world was at one time conquered. All of Europe was one time Rome. He wouldn’t respond to me what conquered land he occupied. I would not be surprised if he lived on land that America liberated. Hard to watch the sacrifice of our soldiers for so many people that are ungrateful.
The leftys that respond this way (jailing is violence) seem to have no problem at all jailing conservatives who don't agree with them. I guess it's different when they do it. After all they are on a much higher moral plain than we are..... Just ask them, they'll tell you. /sarc
To be honest, there doesn't appear to be any way to stop the left from projecting what they are actually doing onto their opposition short of inflicting some kind of real physical pain. They appear so willfully ignorant that any amount of reasonable argument just runs off their backs like water off a duck.
The first person who wanted me to say putting a person in jail is violent was dumbfounded when I said jailing a person for political speech or thought is violence but putting a murderer in jail is justice. He then said this isn’t going to work you can’t depend on other people for justice. I then asked a simple question “then should there be no justice?” and he abruptly said I didn’t say that. I said I know I just asked you a simple question. That was the end of the conversation.
Do you remember, before the internet, that people thought stupidity was the lack of access to information? Yeah, it wasn't that.
A meme I once saw.
Oops, no edit function.
Higher moral *plain* than we are.
Dots at right of the post open edit
I don’t know why Dr. Nash I no longer get email notifications on likes and replies on Dr. Malones sub stack only. This is the only place I can edit. Tried settings but everything seems to be on
Wish I could help but the computer age and I are not friends. I have had the very same thing happen and do not know why or how it fixed itself but was never anything I did. Hang in there and maybe…
Thanks, I hit the wrong set of dots the first time.
You get the impression sometimes that gratitude requires a heap of effort…at least for some.