Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» D'ya LOVE ultimatums? Show respect to the flag OR ELSE. What happened to the right to peacefully protest injustice? Chimerical?
You do Autumn? I don't. I thought that was a right we all enjoyed. That we could protest things we didn't think were right as long as it was done peacefully. Isn't it in the Constitution? It is very scary when an authority figure like a prez says a person should be fired for engaging in peaceful protest. They do in other countries. You don't dare go against the government in any way. I thought America was supposed to be a place where you could speak freely. SIGH. Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday m'dear. I'm more than a little distressed. :(
This post was edited by RosieG at September 25, 2017 2:24 AM MDT
I have learned from the wise counsel of God's word to not allow imperfect man and their leadership to dictate my life, and or my future. It has saved me from much disappointment. (Jeremiah 10:23)
The following is from GK Chesterton's Heretics. It's the last paragraph of the "Introductory remarks."
I am uncertain as to the precise reason for which anyone who kneels is doing so. I suspect there are various reasons---just as there are various reasons that the participants in the following want the lamp post down. So if I kneel or consciously stand, what an I actually protesting and what am I actually supporting?.....
Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, "Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good—" At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their unmediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes. So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark.
This post was edited by tom jackson at September 26, 2017 8:52 PM MDT
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