Da Goddess

Freedom's Just Another Word

You know what some people do with their right to freedom of speech? They turn it into a perverse attack on the very people who defend that right.

I'm all for the right of The People to speak their minds. I'm frightened though. I'm frightened because there are people with no clue out there spouting words encouraging treason and advocating the death of our troops, unconcerned about the lives of innocent people of countries who've only known oppression.

It's easy to be blinded by the ideas that some misguided people spout to a crowd. It's especially understandable that our younger generations are so easily led by those who hold those beliefs.

It scares me, though, that anyone buys into those thoughts and that they ignore the hard work of so many people to give others the chance to live free and prosper, to find health and to secure the resources for their most basic needs, to give the children of war-torn countries a chance learn and to sleep a gentle sleep instead of one filled with nightmares.

The ISO isn't about peace or freedom. It's about promoting a specific agenda against the military. Against freedom. I don't think that my feelings are right, left, or anything other than humane. Whether you consider yourself a Republican or a Democrat, the one true belief that I think we share is the desire for those who've lived under a dictator's cruel hand to know freedom.

I think that young Rebecca needs to further her education. Four years at a university has taught her little about life. Maybe she should consider the Peace Corps. Maybe she should go live among people who have nothing and who know nothing other than poverty and oppression. Maybe then she'd have a clue.

Maybe I'm wrong. All I know is, after talking with Smash and reading the transcripts, that Sugarmama's quiz makes a lot more sense than Rebecca's warped views.