Comments on: “Freedom” Narrated by Fred Thompson

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:45:49 +0000

I am a Republican. I support all freedom. If I want to smoke, I will smoke.

And what if the thing you want to smoke is marijauna? I don’t believe there are many of your Republican that would “let” you have that freedom.

If we vote against it, then you don’t get to force it upon us anyway.

Make up your mind. Either the government — through votes — can trump your rights or it can’t. If you’re ok with the GOP proscribing things which we would naturally be free to do, you have to take it like a good boy when the Dems do the same on their pet issues.

The only way to truly protect your freedom is to come to terms with the fact that other people are also free from you. There are precious few laws you can pass that don’t set precedents that will eventually come back to haunt you.

By: Red Five

Red Five — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:23:52 +0000

Um… Who is it who wants to keep us from smoking, keep us from getting too fat, keep us from driving our cars and living our lives? It not the Republicans. It is Al Gore, among other liberals, who is pushing the lie of man-made global warming upon us. It is Democrats who keep pushing more and more taxes upon working Americans. It is Democrats who keep passing laws against smoking in bars, and against fat in our food. It is Democrats who have to legislate certain things from the courtroom, because they don’t get passed by We The People.

I am a Republican. I support all freedom. If I want to smoke, I will smoke. If I want to eat fat-filled foods, you will not stop me. If I want to drive my car on 10 different errands, returning home after each one, I will. If I believe that legal recognition of homosexual marriage should be decided by the people and not the courts, I will fight the courts. If we vote against it, then you don’t get to force it upon us anyway.

The US government is put into place by the people, and it can be replaced by the people if it isn’t doing what we tell it. The power comes from the people, not from the government. If you don’t like that, perhaps China would be more suited to your tastes. But wait, they ban a whole bunch more stuff than any Republican you can think of. Oh yeah, and they’re liberals, as any good Communist is.

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:34:40 +0000

This is standard Republican rhetoric. It refers to freedom as if economic freedom is the only variant. I’m free to keep all of my money, but you’ll blacklist a bunch of things that are bad for me. That’s no more or less free than the converse.

Let me know when you support all freedom.