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Originally Posted by JohnnyClips
Cool but freedom of speech is useless if you can't do anything about it
I am free to criticize the government but it keeps growing....so whats the point?
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Johnny, what you've just said is a restatement of that old saying about how everybody is always talking about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it.
In general, the answer is hard work. Slavery did not end by itself and Civil Rights did not just grow like fruits on a tree. European Fascism and Communist tyranny did not just blow away. Safe workplaces and wage and hour protections didn't just happen. Hell, Hoover Dam didn't build itself. There's nothing that's good and decent that is impossible if people work hard and work together. What happened earlier this year to a good and honorable man, Ron Paul, should not have happened to a rabid dog.
If the mission is to be the increase of freedom and liberty, this industry and this board, is the place to start the work.
It's been a very long time since our teachers and politicians have spread the word that the first and most important purpose of the United States government is to extend liberty to as many people who live here as is possible. That fundamental truth is why the word "Liberty" or an image emblematic of it is required by law to be stamped into every coin. That's what this country is all about, that's why the Liberty Bell was its first icon, and that's why the French gave us that statue for New York Harbor - an acknowledgement that this principle is what we're all about, and that the light of Liberty should shine brightly here and illuminate the rest of the world. But that lamp has grown dim, and if we can work together, it's possible to rekindle it, at least in one modest area: the right to decide what we want to create and publish, and to select, read, and view.