Ain’t that America
Posted in Jefferson D.C. by R Lee Wrights on August 31st, 2009 by Peter Orvetti
Officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr., inadvertently revealed a sad truth during a confrontation with a peaceful demonstrator last Tuesday in Reston, Virginia. The man was one of several holding up signs outside a town hall forum on health care hosted by Rep. James Moran. Cheeks, a security officer employed by the public through the Fairfax County Public Schools, singled out this man because he did not like his sign.
Cheeks approached the demonstrator and told him to obscure the sign from view. When the demonstrator asked why he was being singled out, Cheeks gave the dubious answer that it was because his sign had a picture on it. Cheeks threatened the man with trespassing charges, and when the activist said he was engaged in legal protest, Cheeks replied, “I’ll charge you with whatever I want to charge you with.”
“This is America! This used to be America!” the agitated demonstrator replied. Then came Cheeks’s moment of truth. “It ain’t no more, okay?”
Well, it’s not quite as bad as all that. The demonstrations over the health care debate have been passionate and sometimes violent, but they have been happening. Dissent has not been snuffed out. But over the past decade, those in power have cynically abused the legitimate need for public safety and security in order to stifle opponents.
In light of the shootings and violence in our schools and streets of this Great Nation 
There is an idea among some opponents of Libertarianism that under a Libertarian system one can sell themselves into slavery. There are even some Libertarians who have a difficult time arguing against this concept as they see that by having property right over ones own body they can sell their body or parts thereof to others and once such a contract is agreed to by both parties no government interference can occur to break this contract. These Libertarians and their opponents can see that this would actually leave someone in a state of slavery even if they changed their minds about a contract of indentured servitude after it was signed. Sometimes the only Libertarian responses available to the ill informed activist are “It says in the platform we are against indentured servitude, so we are,” or even worse, “Well, if your stupid enough to enter into that kind of contract then I guess you get what you deserve.”
Free speech can be complicated, as evidenced by the call from U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey (D-Fort Collins) for “civility” in the passionate debate over President Barack Obama’s plan to socialize American health care.
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Seattle gun owners can take much credit for the ouster of anti-gun Mayor Greg Nickels in this week’s primary election, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said this morning following what amounted to a concession speech at his press conference.
