B. Lorenzo Buckinchere
Jul 21, 2024
On July 4, 2024, we celebrated the 248th anniversary of our countryâs independence. Not even two weeks later on July 13, former president Donald J. Trump was almost assassinated at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania while seeking re-election.
According to news reports, Trump was shot in the upper right ear by a lone gunman on Saturday night, only a few feet away from his wife and son. The motives of the shooter are not immediately clear. Though it is easy to speculate that he was a supporter of the left who was attempting to prevent Trumpâs re-election.
The shooter has been identified as 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks was a registered republican, so it is not clear as to why he would make an attempt on the life of a candidate from his own party.
I have two theories as to why.
- His support for the GOP was all a ruse, and he was spying for the far left all along.
- He is a true republican, but he didnât get his candidate of choice to run on the republican ticket.
Whatever his motives, his actions only further prove the extent to which freedom is being respected in this country today. If he thinks that picking up a gun and using it on someone is the way to solve the problem of a presidential candidate he disapproves of, then that same thought process transfers over to free speech.
248 years ago, wiser men than I had assembled at the first ever sitting of what was to be known as the US congress. There they drafted the first ten amendments of the American constitution, the bill of rights.
The very first amendment within the bill of rights is one that protects civil liberties, which includes; freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, and freedom of religion. Our country was literally founded upon the premise of democracy.
The second amendment is intended to protect our homes and our families from invaders, particularly those who threaten our freedom. So when someone decides to use their second amendment right to penalize someone else for invoking their first amendment rights, rather than defending them for using said rights, the apple has fallen very far from the tree. Is this who we want to be as a country?
Do you know what my problem is with the far left? They seem to have the misguided impression that freedom only applies to them, and nobody else. If you say something they donât like, they call you crazy, and want to cancel you.
They are the only ones who get to have free speech, and you just have to shut up and listen to them. They feel emboldened to trample over the rights of others because they are part of a group that gives them a false sense of invincibility. But always remember that cowards run in packs.
Our enemies are delusional, mostly because they fail to realize that there are actually two sides to free speech. The constitution protects my free speech just as much as it protects theirs, and if I donât like what they are saying, I can just walk away and leave them standing there looking stupid. Howâs that for free speech?
I donât agree with their world views any more than they agree with mine, but the difference between us is that I actually respect their constitutional rights regardless of how I feel. But here is the thing though, I also respect my own rights as well as theirs.
The far left are the least patriotic group in this country, and do not actually respect the constitution. They are only in it for themselves, and will shamelessly and unapologetically exploit our civil liberties, along with the capitalist free market to their advantage.
Now, what kind of people are likely to be far left? They typically tend to consist of feminists, LGBT, blacks, hispanics, immigrants, some working class whites, etc.
The aforementioned groups have been historically considered to be minorities in this country, and are believed to have experienced discrimination, or some other form of trauma. Whether or not that is the case, they tend to struggle with insecurity, and will often use past trauma, or fake mental illnesses as a crutch to excuse away accountability.
Insecurity often leads to envy. They envy anyone who is making too much sense, who doesnât live up to a certain stereotype, or who wants anything else out of life besides the cards they were dealt.
When they get a small taste of power, they let it get to their heads, and they end up abusing it like a bad habit. They now have all this undeserved power, with no good intentions, and no accountability.
Not only that, but the left are as racist as they come. Yet when they see a black man striving to help make America great again, our own friends and relatives want to label us as uncle Toms for doing so.
But through it all, we must hold them all accountable, cost it what it will. There are two sides to free speech, and we must insist on being respected. If they donât want to hear you out, walk away with your dignity intact, or this will never end.
Turning a blind eye to their treachery can be compared to paying a blackmailer. You are not achieving peace by compromising your ideals, you are only encouraging them to get bolder and greedier.
Before you know it, their demands gradually become grander and more preposterous, and you will keep paying them until you are penniless. Then they might still choose not to hold up their end of the bargain.
In order to defeat your enemies, you must first be able to figure out what they are after, and make sure that they are not able to achieve it at your expense. With there being few exceptions, the right are capitalists, and tend to pursue wealth. While the left are communists, and tend to favor societal conformity.
They want power over anyone they fear and envy, and they want it at all cost. What makes you think they want you gaining wealth if doing so would limit their hold over you?
Wouldnât it make more sense to expect that they would try and sabotage our pursuit of wealth and freedom at all cost? This is why they try so hard to silence us. They have been trying to censor our rights to free speech on social media and community forums, and now they have even gone so far as to shoot the people they donât agree with.
Take a stance for equity. Take a stance for capitalism. Take the other side of free speech. Help me take our country back while we still have a country. Do it before they manage to normalize the shooting of those with whom they disagree. If they feel entitled to shoot Donald Trump, imagine how they must feel about me.