Laurence Coakley

2017-07-07 13:06:56 -0400

Ah yes, the US First Amendment protections which allows you to say ‘just about’ anything you want and get away with it; that is as long as a person is careful enough so as not to cross that so-called ‘line’ (a line, I might add, which is sometimes quite invisible, and apparently also movable), then impunity is yours.



Sometimes I think we forget that even a well tended garden if left unattended for too long a period of time will eventually return to the wild. Everything on this earth which has worth and value and importance requires taking care of it; and yes, setting laws, limits, restraints, boundaries, etc., or the unwanted consequences, which includes undesirable elements, will begin to manifest themselves much more quickly. And the longer we allow it to remain unattended, we risk having the well cultivated garden either choked out of existence altogether and to be replaced by that which is neither desired nor wanted, or maybe a small portion of the cultivated land may survive, albeit with the unencumbered encroachment, only for a time.



Just as our actions, deeds and doings, have consequences, intended or not, so too do our words. Through both “show and tell,” or deed and word, we ourselves learn and do. Sadly and unfortunately, too many brains have been bred, fed and raised up in an environment of anti-Western, anti-democracy, and anti-Christian thought, mores and values. And when one is diametrically opposed to another’s “world view” (view point, outlook, belief/behaviour system, call it what you want), that often or not spells trouble.



We all know that as useful as words truly can be, action is also a must, if we are ever to get to where wish to go. . . hopefully it’s not “to hell in a hand-basket.”

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