05-30-2017, 09:50 AM
Political violence has never been an accepted part of American life. It is worth remembering that the struggle for civil rights for Southern blacks became a success because of terrorist violence of the KKK and related organizations.
Of course, neither racial, religious, or ethnic animus serves democracy well. America is for us all or we need to make some basic changes.
Some people simply do not understand what the USA is about. People who push religious and ethnic bigotry intent on denying the right to live in accordance with their religious traditions make a travesty of what America has been.
Of course, neither racial, religious, or ethnic animus serves democracy well. America is for us all or we need to make some basic changes.
Thomas Jefferson Wrote:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Some people simply do not understand what the USA is about. People who push religious and ethnic bigotry intent on denying the right to live in accordance with their religious traditions make a travesty of what America has been.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.