Uneducated Patriots: Death to America
First of all before I even post this I ask that you please to try respond with either an intelligent reflection of the topic I am presenting or an intelligent and informative criticism of my writing. I do not care if you have different views than me, I do not care if you think that I am a moron for the way that I think of things, I care about improving my writing and having a well thought out discussion with intelligent people. My views are very leftist, and will continue to be that way and I have no problem with you disagreeing with them. However if you do disagree please post facts, I do my best to research my articles before they are written and I would ask of you to do the same. Saying that, although not the topic at hand this time, bush is really a good president and I am a moron gets nobody anywhere. Saying that bush has given xx dollars to yyyyyyy in order to help the ______ians with the ability to prove it if necessary is quite a measure better. This article is also very short and was written in about 15 minutes because I was bored so please excuse (but kindly point out) any grammatical or spelling errors. With that said:
Some of you may know that I am very outspoken on my political views which perhaps is a strange sort of thing for a 16 year old two years shy of even being able to vote. I am often criticised for my leftist views and my outright paranoia. Many people do not appreciate the words I write, the words which I hold very dearly to my heart, that are simply an attempt to better the lives of some people. This is excusable though, people naturally resist views different from their own and not many people hold my beliefs at all. However when somebody tells me that my opinions are unpatriotic I take it as a very personal insult from a very uneducated person.
More than 200 years ago people fought for the very freedoms that people criticise me, and many other students, for using. The recently published Soapbox magazine/newspaper (the newspaper this article will be published in) recieved a lot of flak from a lot of teachers because of its clearly expressed views, views that were expressed without editing to make it acceptable for the average 3 year old. The truth is I cannot go into a movie theater and yell fire no more than I can call in a bomb threat to my own school simply because they are considered to present a clear and present danger to society. This means that they are not, and can not be protected under free speech. However the last time that the word **** caused any possible danger to anyone is not recorded in the history books and is not known to me nor anyone I know.
That however is not the point of me writing this article, my intended point was another part of free speech which seems to only apply to fascists. As Corey Taylor (from the band Stone Sour) wrote in his poem Omega, "Huh, what luck. Fascism you can vote for." Me saying that George Bush is a moron and should be removed from office by any means necessary is expressing my right to free speech in the way that the right was meant to be expressed.
Let me take you, my readers, half a world away into the country we know as China. In 1989 a most tragic even happened, an event which is now called the Tiananmen Square Massacre. An estimated 5,000 citizens of China were massacred by their own military simply for expressing views that were different than those of the current ruling party. They, as did many Americans during the Revolutionary War, died to have the freedom of speech and the freedom to criticize their government when they see corruption or other problems. This right is one of the fundamentals of democracy, the fact that each citizen be it a man or a woman, white or black, poor or rich has the same say in the government as anybody else. Now given that fact I would say that me saying the government needs a complete overhaul and is not running as efficiently as it should is one of the single most patriotic things I can possibly do.
Perhaps I have been wrong in my views in many occasions. Perhaps my views have been so far out in left field that they are extremely difficult to understand. Perhaps the government is not as corrupt as I sometimes say it is. Perhaps the blasphemous words I spew out of my mouth are really just that however at no point in time should anybody call me unpatriotic for doing what I believe is my patriotic duty.
Re: Uneducated Patriots: Death to America
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Originally posted by Skitchen8
First of all before I even post this I ask that you please to try respond with either an intelligent reflection of the topic I am presenting or an intelligent and informative criticism of my writing. I do not care if you have different views than me, I do not care if you think that I am a moron for the way that I think of things, I care about improving my writing and having a well thought out discussion with intelligent people. My views are very leftist, and will continue to be that way and I have no problem with you disagreeing with them. However if you do disagree please post facts, I do my best to research my articles before they are written and I would ask of you to do the same. Saying that, although not the topic at hand this time, bush is really a good president and I am a moron gets nobody anywhere. Saying that bush has given xx dollars to yyyyyyy in order to help the ______ians with the ability to prove it if necessary is quite a measure better. This article is also very short and was written in about 15 minutes because I was bored so please excuse (but kindly point out) any grammatical or spelling errors. With that said:
Right here, you are asking that we relinquish our freedom of speech by asking us to reply to this thread in a way acceptable to you.
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Originally posted by Skitchen8
... However when somebody tells me that my opinions are unpatriotic I take it as a very personal insult from a very uneducated person.
But we have the freedom of speech to reply any way that we desire, correct? So then you shouldn't take this as an insult, but rather as a blessing because we have the freedom of speech to call you whatever.
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Originally posted by Skitchen8
More than 200 years ago people fought for the very freedoms that people criticise me, ...
Actually, they revolted against England because of taxation without representation (i.e. money)
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Originally posted by Skitchen8
Perhaps I have been wrong in my views in many occasions. Perhaps my views have been so far out in left field that they are extremely difficult to understand. Perhaps the government is not as corrupt as I sometimes say it is. Perhaps the blasphemous words I spew out of my mouth are really just that however at no point in time should anybody call me unpatriotic for doing what I believe is my patriotic duty.
Really, and don't take offense because I don't mean this faceciously (sp?), but you in no way cannot have an experienced opinion of things until you finish school, leave your parents house and live on your own, and become an independent man. I am over twice your age, so I know what I am talking about. You lack so many life experiences that at 16 you really cannot fully understand many of the things in life. Unless you are a prodigy, you probably spend 1% of your day in politics. The other time is chasing girls, hanging with friends, etc like a normal 16 year old. There is so much more to it that you will come to see in the future. Just remember that it is okay to change your views in the future to what makes sense, and not what others force on you.