Friday, October 3, 2008

Your Bill of Rights, A Quick Distillation

Whether it is 1948, 1988, or 2008 the following is true. It may be more relavent in the days of the Patriot Act and a presidency that has trouble differentiating between the president and vice president.

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If you allow anyone to burn or ban someone else's book, yours gets a number and is put in line. Period. End of sentence.

If you allow the compromise of anyone else's Freedom of Speech, your thoughts are on someone's list, somewhere, to be muffled. Period. End of sentence.

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Protect the other guy's rights as though they were your own. They are.

-jb

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