Date of Article: September 26, 2011
Source: Jonathon M. Seidl / www.theblaze.com
Web Address: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/black-panther-supporter-warns-conservative-student-i-could-exercise-my-2nd-amendment-right-on-you/
Summary of Article:
A conservative student group on a college campus was handing out flyers in honor of Constitution Day, (September 17) and another student, a black panther supporter, confronts the student with what could be considered as a mild threat, saying that such a right as promised in the constitution he could use to threaten/harm others. The hypocrisy is rampant, however, this student then says that he doesn’t even believe in the constitution.
Voltaire once said something along the lines of “I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
This statement holds true in this case. The black panther student doesn’t agree with the constitution student, but he still has a right to free speech. And while his comments might be cause for concern, he can still say what he thinks as long as he isn’t overly threatening or violent. Seidl is right- even if you don’t believe in the constitution it still protects you. However, this still doesn’t give this student cause to mildly attack the other student simply because he disagrees. Disagreements, as long as they don’t involve something sordid, critical or violent in nature, can well be ignored. They don’t have to be attacked.
This student’s hypocrisy can be well seen. First of all, if you don’t even “believe” in the constitution, as you so say, then why to you even bother to mention it in your attack on this student? Mr. Constitution student is celebrating the constitution- and subsequently the right to free speech at the same time. Under the constitution, he can express his views. In this case, he wasn’t trying to promote an opinion, he was merely celebrating all the rights given to *everyone* under the same document that has so long preserved this country. And let me ask you something Mr. Black-Panther-is-great student: if you don’t believe in the constitution, that’s fine.
We’ll just remember that you and you alone do not have the right to free speech, religion, fair trial, voting rights, quartering rights, search warrant rights, etc. Because you believe you have no right to those rights, correct? how humble you are! Oh, that’s not it? But I thought you said you didn’t believe in the Constitution?
*sigh*
Oh well, regardless of what he thinks, he is still protected. If he wasn’t, the Constitution would be guilty of double-standards, which it’s not. If it was, there is no way it will still be a living document today.
Interestingly enough, a woman shows up and asks the constitution student, whose name is Cleary (surname), and asks him if his group “looked like” a “white supremacist group”.
Whaaa??
He is only promoting what makes this country great. The living document that yes, gave even you two losers the right to attack him (verbally)
Ironically enough, the woman who made the insinuation was the director of the Office of Cultural Diversity on the campus.
Excuse me?
Wouldn’t that mean that she should celebrate his right to diversity of promoting the culture of his country?
The problem with the first amendment is the same thing that makes it so great. Everyone can take advantage of it. Everyone.
Yes, even the people who exercise their first amendment trying to take down the constitution and then when they are attacked, they cite their constitutional rights! There is no end to the double standards of some organizations and people. You see this constantly with the so called “separation of church and state.”
The line between these has become so blurred now, it is difficult to find a judiciary that can interpret this “law” correctly.
But the problem is, if enough people take advantage of the laws that they feel justify their hate, eventually, there will be nothing left to protect them.
And then they will have nothing.
This article clearly highlights the great importance of taking advantage of your rights. Because if people who supposedly hate the rights they are using to, well, frankly, exercise their hate, eventually they might get their point across and then we will know who do thank when we have no rights at all: The “Cultural Diversity People and the Separation of Church and State People” who promoted their cause (using free speech!) in the name of a “progressing time and progressing people. It’s all in the name of Progress.
But does progress mean we forget our origins and what once made us great?
Is there really a justification for such a sacrifice?
~KnightRanger
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
