Curb Your Tongue, Watch Your Mouth

Well, shut my mouth, I've just lost my First Amendment!

The First Amendment has lost its meaning. Freedom of speech is being interpreted by the politically correct. The speech police are climbing on their horses and riding rough shod over our tongues and our minds.

Our thinking is being censored; our tongue is being curbed. The newspaper, the TV, the magazine and book people are so busy reporting this without pausing to figure out the implications. Better regroup.

Those who dare to open up their mouths and use a word the politically correct group thinks is a slur must then defend themselves for such an act.

The rest of the world must be sitting back and wondering... land of the free? You gotta be kidding!

Has anybody stopped to think that they can't shut up the world? Has anybody stopped to think words will go on and on, and if the tongue is stifled the mind will seethe and who knows what will happen when it explodes. Has anybody stopped to wonder, if they shut themselves up, instead of perpetuating certain speech patterns they just may go away by themselves?

According to Webster's Dictionary, it has so many meanings for certain words that to claim anything is right or wrong is by definition questionable.

Take "civil rights." Here we have an anomaly. Civil as not military, civil as city, state, or citizen, civil as polite. Let's assume citizen, aren't those the military citizens also?

So as a polite group of inhabitants of this country all these rights accrue to all of us. The Supreme Court got involved in an issue that is not its function. It's not seated to arbitrate social issues. Since it has deigned to
do so, it cannot rule in favor of one group as opposed to another. Each already has a right and to make a ruling for one against the other violates an accrued right.

To find when decisions are made based on civil rights; they are really made because one group or another is playing politics.

We have groups marching, screaming, agitating against other groups and waving foreign flags. To what end? Rights. Rights that only accrue to U.S. Citizens. As for specific rights, some are not rights at all, but are simply benefits granted by a society that believes in order to survive we must work together. Nothing accrues to one because of any differences; it accrues because society bestowed a benefit on one.

But as we work to retain our rights through the First Amendment let us not go overboard, let's not get down in the gutter just to prove we can!

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