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herfacechair -> RE: Dixie Chicks: Radical Chicks? (7/18/2006 7:47:09 PM)
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MyMasterStephen: Free speech is weakness now, is it?
That is not what she communicated. Free speech is not a weakness. It is a failure to exercise the responsibility that comes with any right that we have that is a weakness.
MyMasterStephen: Celebrities who can be heard should be stifled, whilst the "little people" who have minimal influence can speak freely?
She is not advocating that we “tape their mouths shut”. In fact, this is what she said:
“I believe everyone is entitled to their opinion but I think that people of celebreity often take their celebrity too far and abuse it.” - feastie.
Meaning, they are opinion leaders. They have the power to galvanize large blocks of people. Using their celebrity status to regurgitate the enemy’s talking points is very irresponsible and encourages the wrong people.
One of her points, which is shared by a large number of Americans, is that with our right to free speech comes responsibility. Another point that she is getting across is that the rest of us see them as popcorn farts when it comes to expressing an opinion on a politician or his/her foreign policy.
MyMasterStephen: Dissent should be stamped down and debate should be censored.
Nothing of her message advocated that we stamp out dissent or censor debate. People CAN disagree with the war. If they support the troops, then they need to exercise some common sense and not say something that would encourage our enemies to hang on. Openly opposing the war on a medium accessible to the enemies encourages them to keep fighting. Please see the Vietnam General’s statement above. The terrorists think that they could replicate that part of our history, thanks to people that openly undermine the administration and the troops.
MyMasterStephen: An interesting concept of democracy...
Actually, expecting people to be responsible with their rights is a part of the democracy concept. Otherwise, as our founding fathers put it, there would be complete chaos.
MyMasterStephen: How strong is the nation which cannot accommodate freedom of speech - and, of necessity, freedom of thought?
The question should be, how strong is a nation whose member’s can’t restrain their freedom of speech when such would lead to “lose lips sinking ships?”
MyMasterStephen: What DID you people achieve on the 4th of July?
Interesting you said that, because many of the people that made our 4th of July possible - our founding fathers - also recognized that “we can’t have too much freedoms”. Which brings us back to the concept that with our rights comes responsibilities.
MyMasterStephen: No wonder people the world over hold you in contempt
Actually, people around the world hold us in contempt because far to many of them don’t bother to take the initiative to find out what is really going on - beyond what their media is telling them. We have a media establishment that directs their people’s attention to America’s perceived faults. This being done to divert attention to the more serious things going on at home. Add to that way to many people who would rather be spoon fed their information instead of getting off their hind ends to research the facts. Take these together and you will see why misguided people hold us in contempt.
Here, let me show you…
Your news sources: France, Russia, Germany, etc try to stop the stop the U.S. from being “belligerent”.
What a little initiative would show these foreign news viewers:
France, Russia, Germany, etc try to stop the U.S. and the U.K. from stopping one of their cash cows. Said countries were defending their own interests. Without this interests, and should interests be gain by going into Iraq, these countries would have been with the U.S. and U.K. in hopes of getting a new income stream.
Here is another thing that I noticed, in those countries with strong socialistic tendencies, the idea of personal responsibility and accountability seems to be a foreign concept. So when we hold a madman accountable and responsible for his actions - as a NECESSARY part of maintaining our security - they freak.
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