In my formative years, I often heard people say, “I disagree with your opinion, but I will fight for your right to say it.” World War II veterans still largely shaped the political and cultural landscape of the time, and most of the fathers in the neighborhood had some sort of military service that shaped their worldview. Veterans around the world have fought and watched their friends die against fascism, communism, and totalitarian aggression. As imperfect as they were, they knew how lucky they were to live in America, where they could speak truth to power.
Sadly, in the age of social media and the ever-evolving “hate speech” norms that pervade our nation’s education system, government institutions, and popular culture, this concept is all but disappearing. We have reached the point of insanity. If you misgender someone, you’re likely to be expelled, attacked, criticized, expelled, fired, or labeled a “hater,” but if you advocate a 21st century holocaust against Jewish students and Israel; Vandalism, trespassing, intimidation, and often causing violence and disorder with total impunity.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or respecting freedom of speech, or of the press, or peaceably assembling, and petitioning the Government for a redress of grievances. The War of Independence was still fresh in the minds of the authors of this article. They feared that government authority would become unlimited. Many people have been expelled from the UK for their dissident religious beliefs, which are a nuisance to the official Church of England, and many have been forced to leave their elected offices if the most important rights of the individual are to be preserved. It requires the ability to disagree with and oppose the policies of officials and the ruling majority. Fear of arrest or death was a basic human right to be protected. No constitutional amendment has been more manipulated than the First Amendment.
The inalienable rights of our Constitution are a social contract and involve mutual responsibilities. No matter how much I disagree with your message, you have the right to peacefully stand in public squares, hold placards and shout “From the River to the Sea”, but you have the right to peacefully stand in public squares, hold placards and shout “From the River to the Sea”, but do not obstruct or intimidate passersby. You have no right to do so. , assault or threat. You may not damage public property, damage monuments, trespass, block public roads, disrupt graduation ceremonies, leave piles of trash, or defecate on the front steps of the courthouse. You have no right to do anything, and certainly no right to physically impose your own slogans on others. Desired result!
As a signatory to biweekly public comment, if you believe your policy positions are correct, you should show up and sign what you’re writing for all the world to see and read. Cowards and terrorists hide behind masks, umbrellas, violence, and darkness to sow fear, hatred, and disorder. Show your face while chanting death to America, death to Israel, burning the flag, and calling for jihad. I guarantee you that is a term that most of these “protesters” do not understand. Covering faces and hiding abhorrent ideology and criminal behavior behind the anonymity of rioters violates peaceful social discourse.
Be careful what you wish for. Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization. They accept and exploit the desire of contemporary anarchist and socialist movements to superimpose the Palestinian cause in oppressors versus oppressed orthodoxy, as long as it suits the media’s objectives. But that is fundamentally at odds with the hardline Islamist worldview of Iran and governments like Iran. Proxy militias and the state.
Moral equality is the Achilles heel of the modern left, and its dangerously uninformed demagogues have spent their entire lives immersed in dystopian moral associations. University administrators are clearly trapped and paralyzed by their own ideology.
Students who engage in inciting, threatening, or illegal behavior will be expelled. For students who have been suspended or expelled, those wearing masks, scarves, and genocide buttons should be reinstated through national Holocaust museums or, even better, through Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. I would like. After that, I think they will choose their words, actions, friends, and educational institutions more carefully.
Bruce Butler’s column, “Common Sense Conversations,” appears every other Tuesday in the Summit Daily News. Butler is a former mayor and city councilman of Silverthorne, where he has lived for 20 years. Please contact us at butlerincolorado@gmail.com.
