Government officials are citizens, same as anyone else.
Not true… Government officials can make policies that affect the citizens; they are not the same. And shouldn’t be viewed as the same. I cannot make policies that affect a government official or even that affect other citizens, the only things that I can do to protest the Government Officials is voice my opinion (free speech) and not vote for them the next time around.
They can say what they want, within reason.
What is within reason? Somebody in congress saying, “The President lied about WMD’s” while it’s apparent that Saddam Hussein had the burden of proof for the UN inspectors. Nancy Pelosi calling the Tea Party members Un-American.
I do agree what your saying; unfortunately there are Government Officials that believes they can say what they want because the General News will not hold them accountable or at a higher standard.
Not being American myself, I don't really care who your president is. My only interest in the US is that your problems have a way of becoming everyone's problem. Honestly, our government could function a lot better, but I can't understand how yours functions at all when there always seems to be somebody trying to undermine the guy in charge, no matter who he is or what he stands for.
I’m not really good in explaining the linkage or the need for America’s existence but I really believe the modern world that we live in is relatively new. It could be pinpointed at the start of the United Nations but I think it’s much newer then that. I really think (and believe) the world has changed after the fall from the Berlin Wall and became this modern world once people realized that there is more then porn on the Internet… 1995, 1996… 1999 take your pick… the modern world is very new and dependent on the existence of the American Economy.
As for the abuse of freedom of speech, I agree what you are saying. Actually, I have never been so animated into voicing my political opinions until Bush’s second term. I really disagreed with the Bush Attacks and it angered me how the General News just reported it as facts… “The President lied about WMD’s” [Gee like I was born yesterday, really who was on Probation… Hussein or Bush? And what are you suppose to do to a dictator that doesn’t comply with the UN? What is the point for having a UN Resolutions if nobody complies with them?]
Anyway I really started to voice my opinion when McCain was the running Republican and for what reason that I cannot figure even today why? He was the first person that I’ve seen that was basically saying, “Vote for me, I’m McCain. War Hero, now I’m going to take a nap.” He was the only person running for president that didn’t fight for the job. While, Obama answered questions like Homer Simpson and the General News would say, this is the smartest guy on the planet… [Really? How many states are in the US Obama? The General News killed Dan Quayle for misspelling POTATO but the same General News does nothing to Obama… The guy doesn’t know how many states are in the USA ~ although that would be nit picking I guess]
What really irked me is when “Joe the plumber” asked Obama an honest question and Obama (typical Homer Simpson) told an honest answer… The General News instead of holding Obama accountable for his own words decides to anal probed “Joe the plumber” (he is a typical American exercising his freedom of speech… and he got anal probed for it)
What grinds my gears is people who go around talking about free speech like it's a license to say anything you want without any responsibility for the consequences.
Becoming an American Citizen seems to innate a license to say anything you want without any responsibility for the consequences; I believe that started from the Vietnam Protesters in the late 1960’s [burning the American Flag]; although I believe that was adopted from Dadaism (The protesting of World War 1). I’m not actually an expert here but I like to point my finger at those pot-smoking hippies anyway.
I like to blame our current education system for this. American Students are required by law to learn the US Constitution at the 8th grade, which would be good but those students are between the age of 12 to 14 years old and many will never get another US Constitution class because the students can legally drop out of high school at age 16… And you don’t exercise your right to vote until your 18 years old, so you have a 4-year gap from learning the ‘basic principles on the US Constitution.’
I’m not sure how but many of the students think “freedom of speech” is wearing a political statement in school and the school cannot say anything against it, in reality freedom of speech is a protection of your voiced opinion against the government without the threat of going into jail or being anal probed. (Although it didn’t help Joe the Plumber)
Somewhere between the 8th grade and High School something was lost, although I wouldn’t be too surprised a little Hollywood and the glamorous of the Hippy Revolution may install this innate license.
Free speech exercised irresponsibly can do a lot of damage.
Agree. And most of the irresponsible screaming in the past 40 years was based upon the liberal ideology for utopia. The pot-smoking hippies.
And what Americans do to their leaders is like sitting in the back seat smacking the driver in the back of the head every five seconds and then complaining because you're not getting anywhere.
LOL it’s annoying and bothersome…
My protest against Obama is simple… Fear for the Future (I didn’t like his vision when he was running for president and I don’t want to be a part of it)
Sometimes you just need to shut up and let people do their jobs.
Unfortunately most of us did and Obama got elected into office; he passed a stimulus bill that steals money from our children and grand children to pay for the Democrap and then passed the Health Care bill (without reading the thousand of pages or allowing any debates…).
Sorry, I don’t want any voting American to forget this…
Currently speaking, the insurance companies are stopping children only insurance plans (Thanks to the Health Care Law) and companies like McDonalds is thinking about dropping their insurance policy…