Freedom @ MindSay

I was watching Independence Day and I was listening to this speech made by th president in the movie:

"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind.

Mankind -- that word should have new meaning for all of us today.

We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore.

We will be united in our common interests.

Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.

We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.

And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:

"We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not vanish without a fight!

We're going to live on!

We're going to survive!"

Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!"

If it actually takes a threat of worldwide human annihilation to get other people to recognize that we are all one race on one planet, then may the creatures willing to eradicate the human race try to. 

I'm tired of the shit that humans do to each other or even accuse each other of.

I'm tired of people being antagonistic towards people who think the earth was created by an intelligent designer instead of evolution and who knows what started it. There is "proof" for both and it depends on how one interprets the data. Until I finally finish my time machine none of us will know for certain.

I'm tired of this stupid idea of hate crime legislation. First off, we were founded as a nation with the freedom of speech, a freedom of ideas, a freedom to have our own opinions and a freedom OF religion (not 'from' you illiterate people). As long as no one is physically hurting/harming another human being each person should have the right to believe what they want to and have their own opinions. The hate legislation will basically deny everyone their right to an opinion and the right to express it.

 

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

    Justice Anthony Kennedy (1936 - )

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

    Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator 

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

    Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

    Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952

Sometimes I do need freedom
But freedom sometimes causes pain
I must not put it ahead of what's important.
Screw freedom, live for love and care.
Control

Some people are an enemy of both forces, but I'm not, I fight for both, but love should always come first
I know what it's like to be starved of both. I shall not starve people of either, because they need both. I can cope with less of both nowadays
But caring comes first
Freedom would make me into a monster, it's only my self control that's stopping me from hurting people
I'm a demon in chains, the chains of my willpower, which at the moment is stronger

Is your love afair with Barry Obama over yet?

I openly admit that I do not have all the details, and am writing with perhaps partial information, but I write any way... Because I am a bit afraid and amazed at the people.

 

I heard this morning that your beloved President has a plan to pay for all the proposed health care reform: His plan includes things like, taxing people with income above 250k/year, cutting medicaid and medicare, and imposing penalties upon companies and individuals who do not cary health insurance.

I can understand taxing the rich, but not disproportionally. I can't see cutting medicaid/medicare- that will take away from the old people who depend on that system. (The ultimate goal being to euthanize the elderly, or to stock-pile them in warehouses until they die, much the way the assylums were for the mentally handi-capped until the 1970's. The only alternative I can think of being that the children will be required to insure the parents, and what of those who have no children?)

To impose penalties upon those who are unable to, or who have chosen not to carry health insurance takes away the freedom of choice. You impose penalties on speeders and lawbreakers. You impose penalties on companies for non-compliance issues. If a company has, say four employees, and does a meager business, trusting in the good heart of the employees to help build a company from the ground, at what point does the government decide it is time to impose such a penalty? If a familyfalls between the cracks, or hits hard times after some unplanned financial struggle, (who ever plans to struggle financially?), how will they pay such a penalty? And what is the amount of the penalty? It is entirely possible for a family of four to have a household income of 40k, which is well above the poverty line, not living extravagantly, owning used cars and making payments on them, to have such financial struggles as to worry occassionally about whether to put gas in the car or food on the table, while keeping the basic bills barely up to date.

Health care reform should not be imposed upon those seeking medical attention, but on the practitioners who charge $8200 for a night in a hospital, or above 10k to simply have a child, which is a natural course of life. A doctor who walks into a patients room and listens to a heart beat for 30 seconds should not charge $400 for that 2 minute visit. (These are the kind of things that have caused us to be in a healthcare crisis to begin with.) Where is the cap in trade where that is concerned? They want to impose a cap on what a construction project may cost, cutting into the pockets of those who risk injury to build the mansions of the doctors who charge too much to treat them!

 

Quite frankly put, I am afraid for America. I am afraid of Barak Obama. His language reflects that of the fathers of Communism. I know I may not have all the information I need to make these statements, but by my gut-instinct, I am right.

Has your love for your Czar ended yet?

Everyone is so down on suicide. Not one person in all the articles I've read tonight support it. I can not let that stand. Surely there has to be some positive aspects to suicide. What if a person isn't depressed, is sane... is it still possible they could want to commit suicide? I would argue that it is possible.

What would be the motive of such a person? Perhaps said person is just sick and tired of this existence. Wouldn't be that hard to imagine when you take the state of the world into account. With global warming, right wing nut jobs, overpopulation, pollution, religious fundamentalism, scarcity of resources, and greed... it's not that far fetched to think that someone without mental or physical issues would want to off themselves.

In my research I've also discovered the best way to commit suicide if that is your wish. Insulin overdose would be the best way. One important thing to remember... have another dose handy in case you wake up a few hours later with a headache. It seems our livers have the ability to offset large doses of insulin in life threatening situations. This is why many insulin suicide attempts fail. Fortunately, it takes a few day for your liver to reset, so if you hit yourself again right away with another large dose, then your almost assured to succeed where so many others fail.

I'm not saying you should commit suicide, but I also believe in individual freedom. I think all people should be allowed to make up their own minds. We all act like dying is the worst thing that can happen to you. I think it may be the greatest adventure.