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Found drifing on the Internet..............

It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.

It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.

It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.

It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!!
attributed to televangelist John Hagee
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This piece of rhetoric is inspiring but simply wrong. The soldier helps us defend our liberties from certain kinds of threats of violence. The law officer protects us in other ways. Attorneys and judges protect our freedoms in yet other ways.

But giving us those freedoms were men of thought, men who were well educated and who read the growing body of philisophical thought on the ideas of personal freedoms and social structures. These men, and some notable women among them, boldly applied those liberal thoughts of self governance and individual freedoms to the constitution of a new nation. Our rights are given and secured by our U.S. Constitution.

They are maintained by brave actions of soldiers, lawyers, law enforcement officers, activists, writers, actors, pastors, laymen, men and women of all faiths and of no religious faith, private citizens concerned enough to exert their rights and sometimes to sacrifice their peace, prosperity and anonymity to defend their rights.

The soldier is certainly not alone in defending liberty and most soldiers would be among the first to remind us of this. They have a particularly difficult part to play, but their sacrifices would be meaningless if the rest of us failed to exercise our rights to speak out, to refuse unreasonable searches and invasions of our privacy, to insist on legal counsel, to demand control over our own most private and personal decisions about our beliefs and choices in life.

posted by Unknown at 10:53 PM