Good news in the “Land of the Free”:
Support for the First Amendment is on the rise and many Americans want more information about how the government is fighting the war on terrorism, a survey released Friday shows.
The nationwide telephone poll of 1,000 adults found that 19 percent of respondents strongly agreed that the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees. That number was down sharply from the 41 percent found on last year’s survey, conducted nine months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
I’m sorry, but I’m not impressed, nor am I happy about this bit of news. Though it is encouraging that many Americans have come to their damn senses since 9/11, nearly 2 out of every 10 Americans still believe “the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees”.
Let’s extrapolate that out shall we? According to the Year 2002 CIA Fact Book the population of the United States of America is approximately 280,562,489.
64% of that number are people aged 15-64. So, that gives us a total of about 179,559,992 people old enough to both understand the system of government with which we live and able to make an informed opinion about said form of government.
So, take 19% of that and you come to a grand total of 34,116,398.
If this poll is correct, over 34 MILLION “Americans” believe that the First Amendment grants us too much freedom. Never mind that the First Amendment along with the other nine were never intended as rights granted to us. Our forefathers never would have dreamed of drafting a government that gave us rights. No, the Bill of Rights were nothing more than a restriction on the government at large. Notice the restrictive language:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit that these 34 million “Americans” are either criminally insane, or are just chuckleheaded, evil bastards that have no claim to American Citizenship.
Ok, ok, that’s a bit harsh, I know. I do believe, however, that these 34 million “Americans” have no love for this country. Their love and allegiances lie only with their elected demagogues and the political parties they represent.
