Offending someone.

I’m 80 years old and I’ve never heard so much of "don’t say this or don’t say that because it might offend someone" as I do these days.  They call it being politically correct. These days not to offend someone basically means that everyone should keep their mouths shut and not say anything. In other words you should forget that we were ever taught to speak what was on our minds. I think that all this garbage started in the USA and of course having copycats here in Canada it has spread over here as well. This kind of garbage infringes on the free speech that we are supposed to have.

Yes, I will go along with taking care of what you say if you know that it’s going to cause some kind of disturbance and/or would cause damages, injuries or the killing of someone. That would be taking the right to free speech too far. On that side of the equation there is a big problem too, as some people tend to wag their tongue before doing any thinking of what the results could be from offering their little comment. I must also mention that what you say, if not said in a way that simply cannot be misinterpreted at all, chances are that you’re going to be tagged as a racist or being prejudice because it might affect someone with a different colour skin or nationality.

I offer this humourous video on racism for your consideration. 

Like I mentioned before, what goes on in the USA spreads over here in Canada. In the USA, the minority has become the majority and here in Canada the same thing is happening. I really believe what used to be called free speech will become a crime and you will have to have a permit and be censured before saying what you would like to say. And why woldn't that happen? After all, we have to have a permit for almost everything else we do.

Is free press on the way out?

If president Obama has his way, not only will citizens' privacy have been taken away when he's done, but  so would free speech and freedom of the press.   Fox News recently ran a story about what the administration wanted the FCC to start doing.

The FCC is launching a new study, taking upon itself the task of deciding what news the public “needs” to hear, versus the news the public wants to hear. The agency will conduct a “General Population Survey” that will “measure community members’ actual and perceived critical information needs.”

Got that? What you think (perceive) you need to know is different from what the government says you need to know.

Thankfully, it now looks as though the public backlash has caused them to rethink this dumb idea. Maybe it won't go through.

But I've mentioned before that in the future as neighbors we might have either a third world country or a communist one. I really believe it’s going to happen in the very near future if this supposed-to-be president is not stopped from implementing his agenda. What I would like to know isn’t there supposed to be a group in that administration that is supposed to speak on behalf of the citizens? If so where are they?

Free speech? There is no such thing as free speech.

There is no such thing as free speech. When I hear people say you’re allowed to say what you have on your mind, I disagree. Sure you can say what you have on your mind but there are some laws that can be broken by saying what is on your mind. These days, if you say something that someone doesn’t agree with, you can be brought to court and sued for it. You can also offer your opinion on some things and obtain the same result.

These days in order to make sure that you don’t get sued for using what they call free speech, or offering an opinion, you would have to actually do an investigation of the facts before making any kind of statement. Then the person doing this could be charged with invading a person’s privacy by investigating that person privately. Now, where is this free speech that people are talking about? 

To me, free speech is just like politicians when they make a statement, and in making their point they say “we have to think of the children’s future.” That is their way out for lack of anything else to say. Even friends can turn against you for making what they would call a bad statement just to advance themselves in a career or wanting another career.

In theory we have free speech, but there are so many restrictions on it that it doesn't really exist.  So I will suggest just saying so much when you talk. Then say no more on the subject. It can be too much of a risk for you.

If people nowadays don’t have the brain power to think and realize what is happening to free speech, I would say they are lost to this world of people who are too preoccupied to learn things that the schools don’t teach. The restraints on free speech also affects what you see on the news.  It's all done in politically correct ways.  News is news, facts are facts but when they get put through a filter it is not news anymore, it becomes opinion.  That's not a healthy way to keep the public informed.

That’s my rant of the day. 

Have a good day.