tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post5981757740548332477..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: PerspectiveFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-64033560963085989592018-09-19T08:47:09.740-04:002018-09-19T08:47:09.740-04:00I've been reading several of Ron Unz's Ame...I've been reading several of Ron Unz's American Pravda series via <br />https://www.unz.com/runz/our-american-pravda and some of what I come across is mind blowing in terms of what we weren't taught or the other side of the story which deliberately was never told. <br /><br />Are the bad guys really that bad? The good guys really that good, or good at all? What strikes me is that much of history is like this. Once you start looking at history as a reflection and analysis of men doing what they had to do in their time, it takes on a very different tone and scope.ltarmenia4ever@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08056383457023073580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-3647811389373833662018-09-16T22:44:05.323-04:002018-09-16T22:44:05.323-04:00I agree, Linda, but then they would have to back-t...I agree, Linda, but then they would have to back-track and explain why a democracy is bad, and why this country was not meant to be a democracy, and why the individual's rights were meant to be sacrosanct. <br /><br />The authors (some of them, at least) meant for the Bill of Rights to protect every citizen's rights, not the collective body of citizens' rights (note where the "possessive" apostrophes are placed). That is how the Left has been twisting the words of the Second Amendment for the past two centuries - and then some - by insisting that the Second Amendment was not an individual right. The Left has been intentionally mis-parsing the Second since the ink was drying on that document.<br /><br />I learned more about the rights of the individual reading Robert Heinlein at 14 than I ever did in any of the history classes I attended.Reg Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14099612693763932005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-54702398714370702342018-09-15T17:57:53.465-04:002018-09-15T17:57:53.465-04:00As I age, I realize that most of the ways that his...As I age, I realize that most of the ways that history is taught are wrong. I'd like to see a curriculum based on exploring the idea that the freedom of the individual is important, and that limitations on that freedom should be few, narrow, and modifiable only in the direction of greater self-determination.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-75874683852274318512018-09-15T14:49:34.854-04:002018-09-15T14:49:34.854-04:00Sadly at age 67 I have come to realize that most o...Sadly at age 67 I have come to realize that most of the things I learned in school were wrong and most of the things I've learned in life are disappointing. All my life until recently I had a deep love for the Constitution. I actually believed it was there to guarantee our God given rights. I now realize it's a weak and flaccid document which allows idiots to "change" their sex into any of 157 they choose. It allows Africans and Mohammedans to invade America with the desire to destroy it. It's used to bestow favor on people just because they are the right race i.e. not white. There are many more deficiencies but I'm sure you get the point.<br /><br />I was told the Constitution is not a suicide pact but I have lived long enough to realize it really is! I was told we're a "Nation of l was" but we are really a nation of lawyers. E Pluribus Unum, out of many one is our motto but somehow "Diversity is our strength". How can that be? <br /><br />The Constitution states we are free to practice religion and the government cannot "prohibit the free exercise thereof". It does not say the federal government should be involved in any way in education yet the feds illegally created the Dept. of Education thereby taking over the public schools de facto and then proceeded to prohibit prayer because it's federal. <br /><br />The Constitution says "The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" yet we all must get permits to buy, own and carry arms and many types of arms are denied to the people. If they can force us to buy permits for our God given right to arms why can't we require permits to vote? Or worship? Or to speak freely? And how the hell is burning a flag or kneeling Free Speech? If burning a flag is free speech why isn't sacrificing a virgin freedom of religion? <br /><br />Finally, if our Constitution cannot protect us from those who want to destroy us like moslems and communists then what good is it? Right now it's being used to protect those very people when they should come here in fear not protected. Who in their right mind protects their enemies? Common sense says you kill your enemies not give them welfare, free education and health care. Kyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16399082135529920025noreply@blogger.com