{"id":2142,"date":"2007-04-18T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2007-04-18T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T17:14:00","slug":"news-with-commentary-post-chite-look-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/news-with-commentary-post-chite-look-away\/","title":{"rendered":"News with commentary post. &#8216;Chite, look away."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As relayed to me <a href=\"http:\/\/shimmeringjemmy.livejournal.com\/675627.html\">and posted<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/shimmeringjemmy.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">shimmeringjemmy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Supreme Court upheld a ban on later term abortions that do not take into account the health of the mother.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I see this as yet another step in law creation that is designed to protect the lawmaker over the people.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year I have seen the following rights of the individual taken away:<br \/>\nrights to put money into playing poker online<br \/>\nrights to carry arms on a college campus to defend oneself<br \/>\nrights to have a medical operation than may be necessary to save oneself<\/p>\n<p>It is far more important for the US bipartisan system to make a daily effort to polarize its inhabitants into abject apathy so that the control of government is firmly removed from its citizens hands.<\/p>\n<p><i>The principle of popular election is a fatal folly; its results are visible in every so-called democracy. The elected man is always the mediocrity; he is the safe man, the sound man, the man who displeases the majority less than any other; and therefore never the genius, the man of progress and illumination.<\/i> &#8211; Liber 194 &#8211; 10.<\/p>\n<p>The average american (sic) no longer votes about issues they care about. They vote about polarized words they&#8217;ve been taught to take sides on.<\/p>\n<p>Why does government even try to legislate school prayer when the actions of one person&#8217;s religious beliefs should be untouchable by government? Why legislate the question of the life of the unborn child when the religious leaders of the world can&#8217;t agree on the answer.<\/p>\n<p>A government that has to legislate to protect against the expression of the destruction of its symbolic equivalent is a government that acknowledges that they are failing. Translation without big words: If you have to take away the first amendment rights of free speech to prevent people from burning the flag&#8230; you admit that people are losing faith in what the flag symbolizes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Freedom, independence, liberty<\/em> refer to an absence of undue restrictions and an opportunity to exercise one&#8217;s rights and powers. <strong>Freedom<\/strong> emphasizes the opportunity given for the exercise of one&#8217;s rights, powers, desires, or the like: freedom of speech or conscience; freedom of movement.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, when the government makes laws that affect what I do with my life&#8230; when the government makes laws that turn personal activities criminal&#8230; I for one, don&#8217;t feel a brimming sensation of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>When it is outlawed, only criminals will profit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2142\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/news-with-commentary-post-chite-look-away\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2142\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/news-with-commentary-post-chite-look-away\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2142\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/news-with-commentary-post-chite-look-away\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/news-with-commentary-post-chite-look-away\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As relayed to me and posted by shimmeringjemmy The US Supreme Court upheld a ban on later term abortions that do not take into account the health of the mother. Personally, I see this as yet another step in law creation that is designed to protect the lawmaker over the people. 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