Continuing with my series of posts that make no sense, sometimes it feels we claim to want to protect the constitution but we are focused on only one amendment. I think they all are important, which seems to put me in an peculiar position. One of my friends is the same: he is a NRA life member and also a member of aclu. And I think that makes complete sense.
You see, some of the issues we are dealing with are -- in principle -- affecting others. Just replace the word "gun" with something else and it becomes another attack to the constitution. Have you heard of CISPA, just to name one of the alphabet soups? Have you seen its implications? And yet most republicans in the US house voted for it.
Another case is the thread http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=717232, which talks about mental health privacy, a civil liberty issue that is also a gun one.
It seems that We the People are being divided, labelled, and taught to hate those who do not fit in out comfortable drawer. So, like the old Jewish poem, we do not care when another group's liberties are taken as long as we perceive *our* interests are not touched. We are being divided and conquered. I am very naive: I think all of our liberties are important.
I do not know about you but I did contact my representatives to express my opinion on CISPA. I do need to do the same for the mental health privacy.
I know this does not make sense, and that explains the title.
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You see, some of the issues we are dealing with are -- in principle -- affecting others. Just replace the word "gun" with something else and it becomes another attack to the constitution. Have you heard of CISPA, just to name one of the alphabet soups? Have you seen its implications? And yet most republicans in the US house voted for it.
Another case is the thread http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=717232, which talks about mental health privacy, a civil liberty issue that is also a gun one.
It seems that We the People are being divided, labelled, and taught to hate those who do not fit in out comfortable drawer. So, like the old Jewish poem, we do not care when another group's liberties are taken as long as we perceive *our* interests are not touched. We are being divided and conquered. I am very naive: I think all of our liberties are important.
I do not know about you but I did contact my representatives to express my opinion on CISPA. I do need to do the same for the mental health privacy.
I know this does not make sense, and that explains the title.
Moderators, you can now delete this post.
