You Have The Right
by Our society keeps us under control, not the government. Laws don’t have to control us anymore, because social standards have conditioned us. It’s all because of our foundations of hypocrisy.
All these reasons, and more, are why it’s completely unfair when anyone references the founding fathers as a legitimate source to make an argument. You hear these people, don’t you? “Oh, the founding fathers said I have the right to bear arms!” Well, everyone knows bears don’t have arms. They have four legs, even if they are standing on their two hind ones. Sorry. I’ve inherited some of my dad’s bad sense of humor and can’t resist sometimes – and maybe you’ll only take me seriously if I tell a joke. Do you see what I’m saying here? Your fathers are not always needed to be taken seriously, not even the founding fathers. I’ve always had a good father, but some aren’t so great.
Personally, I think we should be able to own guns. I grew up eating game meat and I know I’d feel safer living in a bad part of a large city with a shotgun under my bed. The founding fathers apparently though so, too. It’s why you do have the right to bear arms – but as soon as you take it too far, like carry an AK 47 into a mall, your right is taken away. You didn’t shoot anyone, you weren’t going to shoot anyone, and the gun wasn’t even loaded, but you aren’t allowed do that kind of thing. Now you don’t have the right to bear arms anymore. The right can be easily taken away, which means it’s not really a right.
No, I’m not some kind of a Wild West enthusiast who thinks everyone should be able to walk around with guns. I don’t think that, mostly because I think someone would probably shoot me. What I want to demonstrate is we don’t really have as many rights as we think we do. At the same time, our rights are limitless. Some just have bad consequences. It’s all a matter of perspective. Look how many times the Bill of Rights has been amended. In reality, it isn’t a Bill of Rights or even our government keeping us controlled, but a societal system build on a foundation of hypocrisy. You can break away from it, because you have the right. People may judge you, but it gets more difficult for the government all the time.
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Post CommentBenyamin Solomon
On January 21, 2010 at 2:15 am
First of all, American textbooks teach anti-American propaganda. it’s seen as accepted fact that Christopher Columbus and the European settlers were mass-murderers and committed a genocide on the Indians, even though scholars [including those on the left] agree that most of the Indians were killed by diseases [anti-American leftists will then say that it was diseases spread by the Europeans]. It’s a myth that the Indians were “in love” with the wilderness. They hunted, though with not as advanced technology prior to the Europeans coming [though the Europeans hunted there as well]. I think that your comparison of the Pilgrims with the Taliban is ridiculous. You claim that America oppresses every religion but Christianity. First off, I’m Jewish myself. The Founding Fathers were pro-Jewish. In those days, there was unfortunately a lot of anti-Semitism in Christian Europe. The place where other religions [besides Islam] are oppressed is in the Arab and Muslim world. At least America doesn’t consider Jews to be “apes and pigs” if you know what I mean. You claim that the Founders fought Britain to keep slaves, keep rights away from women and to kill Mexicans and Indians. Slavery was already in the American colonies even when they were under the British empire. And women [and anyone else] didn’t actually have much rights. Indians were already being killed before the founding of America. Does it make sense for the Founding Fathers to fight for something that already existed? Face it. The Founders did stand for equality and that’s why they fought to form America. Also, America wasn’t killing Mexicans for the heck of it. America and Mexico did have a war very much over territory. It’s more complicated than it simply being big bad America verses innocent Mexico. Plus, America was founded way before Mexico was created. America is imperfect. Everyone agrees there. But it is the land of the free. Everyone has equal rights in America. You’re free to write really whiny anti-American articles and your supporters are free to praise you. Here, a black person CAN be President unlike in the Arab and Muslim world, where Obama would be discriminated against [see what Bari Atwan, author of the book "Secret History of Al Qaeda" said about Obama not even being able to get citizenship in an Arab country]. Yet leftists like Janeane Garofalo have the chutzpah to smear the tea party protesters as racists by falsely claiming that they protest against Obama because he’s a black man in the White House when the truth is that they protest against him because they have legitimate disagreements with his policy and his agenda.
Tron Catalano
On February 2, 2010 at 12:38 am
Dude. I live in Kansas. Believe me. There is some oppression of Jews, Mexicans, Natives, and African Americans going on in this country. It\’s not the government. It\’s the citizens themselves. The citizens are the ones who need the attitude adjustment.
Yes, America is the land of the free. However, it\’s not as free as you or I would like to think. Conservatives often put the government to blame for that. I\’ll say it again. It\’s the citizens. People need to change in this country, but they need to change for the sake of being good people, not because the government forces them.
Benyamin Solomon
On March 22, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Vincent, as I said, I’m Jewish myself. The Founding Fathers were extremely far away from anti-Semitism. You say that there is discrimination against Jews, Mexicans and black people by ordinary citizens. Are there bigots and racists who live in America? Yes. Does that mean that there are anti-Semites living in America, who spread their poison? the answer is obviously a yes. Should we fight the bigotry and racism in America including anti-Semitism? Again, YES!
I’m Jewish and am staunchly pro-American. Not all American citizens are bigots and racists. Some are. But overall, America is still the land of the free. I’m a right-wing Jewish nationalist, who staunchly opposes anti-Semitism.
What Conservatives do is they want people to be less dependent on the government and stand for individual freedom. So we Conservatives want less government control and point out that more government control can [and has] been disastrous.
Benyamin Solomon
On March 22, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Vincent, as I said, I\’m Jewish myself. The Founding Fathers were extremely far away from anti-Semitism. You say that there is discrimination against Jews, Mexicans and black people by ordinary citizens. Are there bigots and racists who live in America? Yes. Does that mean that there are anti-Semites living in America, who spread their poison? the answer is obviously a yes. Should we fight the bigotry and racism in America including anti-Semitism? Again, YES!
I\’m Jewish and am staunchly pro-American. Not all American citizens are bigots and racists. Some are. But overall, America is still the land of the free. I\’m a right-wing Jewish nationalist, who staunchly opposes anti-Semitism.
What Conservatives do is they want people to be less dependent on the government and stand for individual freedom. So we Conservatives want less government control and point out that more government control can [and has] been disastrous.
Benyamin Solomon
On March 22, 2010 at 6:09 pm
When I made that comment, it said there was some error. Feel free to delete the most recent comment.
Tron Catalano
On March 24, 2010 at 12:39 am
Why is it when the government steps in to help the people, the conservative reaction is to say it’s “taking over”? This is the bare-bones of what I don’t understand.
One of my fundamental beliefs is for the individual to prosper. I really do prioritize the individual’s rights. I just don’t see why that has to be seperated from us helping each other. If someone is drowning in a river, I’m not going to turn around and say, “Well. I’m not going to help, because I’m my own individual and so is he. He can help himself get out of that river.”
I really have no opposition to making a sacrifice for someone else’s benefit like that. This is how I see the health care issue. If I have to pay taxes for someone else to live, I feel I am prioritizing that person’s individual right to live and prosper. I feel that’s more important than the 14.50 I would have used to buy a Michael Moore documentary.
Benyamin, I truly am not trying to be offensive. I’m simply trying to understand your point of view and I appreciate this long conversation we’re having over such a long period of time.