Free speech is grand. People may exercise it, and I am free to object to their viewpoints, and so on, and so on.
In Tryon, we hear of a Memorial Day service in which doves will be released. Peace is a wonderful goal, but a Memorial Day celebration seems neither the time nor the place. Americans died defending a principle greater than life; namely, freedom – freedom from oppression, tyranny, and all other forms of control freakery. To make peace with Dr. Dementos who want to force their will on human subjects just doesn’t feel like the right choice.
I realize there are those among us who would argue that war tyrannizes human subjects for the benefit of the military-industrial complex. If that is the case, we should as a people be at war with that faceless enemy.
This reminds me of a comment by Buncombe County Chair David Gantt at the last commissioenrs’ meeting. They were discussing domestic violence, and he said:
It’s a disgrace that we have to talk about this kind of treatment of other human beings. But we do.
