We have a big problem in this country. Well actually we have several big problems but the one I'd like to discuss today is bullying. I don't mean the schoolyard, pick on the weird and different kid kind of bullying, though that too is a major issue with me. What I mean is the mentality that you can sue someone until they do what you want.
You see it more and more as the years go on and its getting ridiculous. By way of a for instance lets look at one John Bruce "Jack" Thompson. He's made a career, what little of it there is, out of filing lawsuits against people and companies he doesn't like in order to get what he wants. He sued Howard Stern and the parent company of his earth bound radio staion until it became such hassle that Stern moved to satelite radio where there no constraints on what Stern can say or do. Thompson proclaims this a victory because he got what he wanted by being a bully. Now Thompson has filed a lawsuit against Best Buy and the ESRB (for full details see http://www.gamepolitics.com/). He's done this before with Best Buy and other retailers. He's tried to bully Microsoft, Take Two and Rockstar games, and other game manufacturers as well.
Of course Thompson isn't the only legal bully there is either. Atheists have, over the years, tried to sue the word God out of every facet of government and the public square, regardless of what the majority wants. In the past few years we've seen a concerted effort to try and remove "one nation under God" from the pledge of allegiance, "In God we trust" from the money, and any number of other lawsuits that are in direct opposition to the will of the people. The majority want those things to stay as they are, but a small group of people have decided that their will is more important and are attempting to use the courts to bully the rest of us into accepting their vision of America instead of our own.
This nonsense has to stop and it has to stop now! This kind of moronic behaviour isn't what the founding fathers intended America to be. Instead of trying to force the people to do what you want, why not actually try and change the culture on the level of the people. Government and law won't change anyone and all this kind of legal bullying does is make more enemies. Of course some people like having lots of enemies, I don't really understand it but eh.
I understand that many will not agree or may take the second example I gave poorly, but this is how I see things. Its how I understand them. Feel free to disagree, but I ask that you do so respectfully.
That's all for now
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3 comments:
"This kind of moronic behaviour isn't what the founding fathers intended America to be."
Ironic then, that really all they are trying to do with the Pledge of Allegiance is return it to the original version. The original version didn't have "under God" in it...
The phrase, "Under God," was added by Congress and President Eisenhower in 1954 at the urging of the Knights of Columbus.
Even more ironic, the reason they added it was to differentiate themselves from those "damn Atheist Commies" across the ocean. But the original Pledge was written by... a Christian who believed in the idea of socialism...
That may well be, but the people have a right to be protected from the tyranny of the minority as well. In most polls the majority of Americans want to keep the pledge the way it is. People have suggested that the common sense solution would be to simply not say "under God" when you get to that part. That seems to be the solution that makes the most sense given what the people want.
Hi 25 boy did you find that it is the end times and America is apostated all the way, very little left as a christian nation.the time is at hand.R
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