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STANDING FIRM (With Comments) by Howard E. Morseburg Requiring
a politically correct form of speech is placing limitations
upon freedom of speech.
Placing limitations upon
freedom
of speech is censorship. Censorship is the beginning of
tyranny.
Tyranny, The idea that each person in a minority (or any) group has the right to choose what is an affront or offensive to them, and then impose restrictions upon others through various forms of coercion, is to inflict tyranny upon those who would exercise their Constitutional Right to express their opinions. That is unacceptable in a democracy.
DICTIONARY OF INTOLERANT THOUGHTS AND EXPRESSIONS The perception that certain opinions or words are slights or insensitive to others is a creation in the minds of those who wish to limit individual thought or free debate, and it must be resisted at every level. Insensitivity may not be desirable, but if free speech is to remain it must be accepted and tolerated. Intolerance of free speech is a greater wrong than intolerance itself. The Dictionary of Intolerant Thoughts and Expressions lengthens with every passing day, and as it does it limits the Rights of those who would speak freely. Thus the tyranny grows and grows, as it gnaws away at the roots of the Constitution and the Amendments to it, and to the freedoms we have now. To be bound by these ever-changing, ever-growing rules that have no basis in law is to submit to governance by mini-tyrants, and submission is like an outbreak of disease that sweeps through the larger group until the mini-tyrants easily take control. Free men and women should not allow themselves to be victimized by mini-tyrants, because as they give up by degrees, they will find that soon more will be demanded of them, until they lose both their freedoms and their country. FROM MINI-TYRANTS TO MAJOR TYRANTS Mini-tyrants enjoy their position as well as their ability to inflict punishment upon those whom they deem in violation of the new rules, the new order, and they usually have a cabal to back them up. Failure to oppose them is sinful, failure to oppose these tyrants allows them to grow and expand until they have the power to attack and control larger and larger institutions, as well as to expand their control and tyranny. We become used to things, such as filthy language or politically correct speech, by small degrees, until we find that we've become accustomed to the unacceptable and that the unacceptable is now the first step into an area that deepens our participation and distances us further from our lost standards and former ideals. Uncouth speech has today become popular while ordinary conversation with a stated opinion is often restricted; how odd! We yield to censorship in any form immediately, upon another's judgment of what we should say; tell me why! If you would be free, then you have to oppose those who would limit your freedoms. If you would be free, then you have to stand up, not once a year, but each day, and speak out for those Rights that have been bought for you at a great price by those who thought them so valuable that they would sacrifice both their fortunes and their lives for them. If you will not defend your Rights, who will? The time to stand up and oppose those who would take them from you is not tomorrow; it is today. The luxury of tomorrow is for those who are willing to lose them; those who find them precious know full well that tomorrow may be too late, that today is the day to stand firm and be counted among the ones who will not back down, who will defend these rights at all costs. Freedom is not without a price. The sole question is: Are you willing to pay that price? Copyright 2006 Howard E. Morseburg |
no matter what its' purported noble purpose, is
unacceptable in a democracy. The justification for such tyranny
is the beginning of the end for democracy and control and enslavement
of its citizens.
