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Do Americans want to remain free? I for one answer in the affirmative, period. People all over the world still want to come here to our haven. Why?

I am not easily offended. We all have the right to make your own decisions about anyone and anything in this country. If you say out loud in front of someone who happens to be of the gay idiocy, you may find yourself in a predicament, unless perhaps you are a stand up comic making jokes, then you are allowed as if you can not take a joke then the joke is on you. Jokes are offensive to some and not to others, which is usually obvious to all involved. Add to that some of our editorial satirists and artists, funny depending on which side of the fence you are on. It would be nice I think if everyone could find the humor in both sides and balance the whole.

Our problem today though lies in the attitude of, in some places anyway, that you need to keep your mouth shut, unless you know everyone will agree with you. It stems a bit from entitlement to thinking that one is more highly evolved than some others in the same room for example. Education entitles you to be the only one who can say what or how anyone ought to act or be. Some lawyers and judges seem to be on this insane ride, and it is insane. In other words if you are a lawyer or a judge it does not make you any more intelligent then everyone else in the room. Humility needs to be the basic concept of the educated, which was a fact years ago, yet entitlement seems to disown humility.

It brings up the insane notion of "you deserve it", well just what do you deserve and why? What do I deserve? Do I deserve something more than anyone else just because I may be taller or shorter or thinner than someone else? No I do not. Do I deserve something more just because I am straight? No. Gay? No. Lesbian? No. Get the point? We all deserve exactly what we get from whatever our behavior is, and usually our behavior is predicted by what kind of environment we were raised in.

Much of it started with the advent of political correctness, which in and of it self is the biggest insanity we have, be it here in the USA or globally. Democracy is based on the concept of societies and individuals freedom. Free speech is just part of it, in my own way of thinking perhaps the biggest part because if we can not say what we think in a group, then we are not truly free; we are just pretending to be free. Our constitution is not meant to be a pretense to freedom. It is meant to give us all freedom.

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