The Constitution Club ^ | 04-06-11 | Zazu
Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2011 5:52:12 PM by TheConservativeCitizen
It has often been said by anti-war activists that the War on Terror is impossible to win, well, increasingly it looks like it IS possible to lose this war. When pastor Terry Jones burned a Koran in his small Florida church, it sparked waves of protest and violence in Afghanistan. A UN compound was stormed and the staff butchered, some beheaded, and further violence is ongoing with new deaths feeding further violence.
President Karzai, the corrupt Afghan puppet who continues to draw breath thanks largely to the efforts of US servicemen, has condemned the act of free speech, and called for the US and the UN to prosecute the pastor. Obama issued a bumbling groveling apology where he condemned the book burning and not once mentioned the right of free speech. Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to have hearings to condemn the pastor, and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham stated that the right of free speech must be abridged for the sake of the War on Terror saying "I wish we could find a way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war".
This is it, if America sacrifices the right of free speech, the War on Terror has been lost. If free expression can be muzzled because it is offensive, or because of the threat of violence, it no longer exists. Freedom to say what people want to hear is not freedom of speech, that sort of freedom is found even in North Korea. Our spineless President should have used this as a "teaching moment" as he likes to put it, explaining the concept of free speech to the Muslim world, and using his voice to condemn blasphemy laws and other religiously motivated prosecution of free speech one often finds in Muslim nations. Every American soldier is sworn to defend the Constitution, including the 1st amendment, if the US army kills every remaining member of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but sacrifices free speech to gain this victory, then it will win the battle but lose the war.
God Bless America.--
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