Tyranny....and how it relates to softball and free speech

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My right to free speech says the government will not hinder it. The right does not extend to what private citizens to to one another. This is someone elses sand box, they get to make the rules. If you don't like how the rules are enforced you can either, find another sandbox, or build your own.
 
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My right to free speech says the government will not hinder it. The right does not extend to what private citizens to to one another. This is someone elses sand box, they get to make the rules. If you don't like how the rules are enforced you can either, find another sandbox, or build your own.

THANK YOU. As an Australian (who doesn't have the right to free speech technichally) it always amazes me to see Americans carrying on about their right to free speech, when they clearly have no idea what their rights ARE.

Civics lesson. This is what Americans have the right to

.... or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

(took out the first sentance about religion, not wanting to get on that here)

Americans have the right for the GOVERNMENT not to limit their speech.There is nothing about private organisations limiting free speech.

There is also nothing to say that people can't respond to you speech. You have the right to say something, I have the right to respond to it.
 
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My right to free speech says the government will not hinder it. The right does not extend to what private citizens to to one another. This is someone elses sand box, they get to make the rules. If you don't like how the rules are enforced you can either, find another sandbox, or build your own.
Tell that to friggin Mayor Bloomber who forced us citizens tom have at least 3 in a motor vehicle entering manhattan from 6am till 12am on Thursday and Friday.
 
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THANK YOU. As an Australian (who doesn't have the right to free speech technichally) it always amazes me to see Americans carrying on about their right to free speech, when they clearly have no idea what their rights ARE.





(took out the first sentance about religion, not wanting to get on that here)

Lozza, see that is the problem America as a nation has been facing the last 20-30 years. You have small groups of people, or small special interest groups attacking the constitution everyday. They want to take "this" out, "add" this in, reword this. I feel the founders worded it JUST the way they intended. They sacrificed their lives to build this nation.

Lots of Americans are fearful of not only losing the inherited rights put in place by our founding fathers, but even if they are not lost the true meaning gets so twisted its hard to govern.

America was once the superpower on the globe. Now we have a debt crisis, immigration crisis, and class warfare that no one wants to acknowledge or deal with. ( it's really sad ) Our founding fathers got away from the European style of governing because they knew it wasn't working, and now we are heading right back into those ideals.

Look at what's happening now in Greece with its class warfare. European countries have built intricate webs of unsustainable social programs that affect every member of society, and they must be unraveled if the eurozone hopes to survive. Real and imagined winners and losers in the process will be at each others' throats, and more violence similar to what we have witnessed in Greece is probably inevitable.

America is in no doubt heading in two directions. It's about the only thing the right and left agree on. Thats why the media has deemed this election one of the largest and important in history.

Here is the spooky part, our founding fathers spoke very openly and wisely against what we are going through today. How could they have known back then, we're they warning future generations?


"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.

This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."** Thomas Jefferson
 
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