I didn't realize the previous thread was closed, or why it was...so here goes for however long it lasts.
I saw the videos online. Yahoo to be expect. When I was actually watching tv, my gf decided she couldn't handle it, and I didn't really care about seeing it anyway. I got home, logged online, and saw his rant. His tirade. My initial reaction was: "He Sounds Like Napolean Dynamite." He was obviously messed up, and this tirade appeared directed at the students. It was a disgusting video, to say the least.
Yet, people, especially on the radio are OUTRAGED that NBC actually put this out, viewing it as promotional material for them, or that it was so crude and ruthless it should have been withheld. My first reaction was the same. It was disrespectful and horrific to put that on tv. But then you know what? It dawned on me.
THIS is the price of the First Amendment. News sources aside, the video WOULD easily be available with the advancement of technology and the internet. Everyone would have seen it. And chosen to see it. Freedom isn't something that's nice and pretty. When the Constitution was written, the world wasn't a perfect place, and even now we can agree it's nowhere closer to that goal. But even if your reaction is complete disgust, there's still the elements of:
-You chose to turn it on
-You chose to keep it on
-You've chosen to purchase cable
-You chose to watch THAT station, at that time, with THAT on
-You CHOOSE your reaction to the video
Freedom and free speech and the world, isn't some polite place. If bad elements exist, they will always collide with the good elements. Yeah, maybe the video was bad or hurt you or hurt the families or rehashed the moments of the past days. But that's freedom. That's personal responsibility. People are going to cry out that we're going to heck in a hand basket. That more controls need to be made. But then, we create our own prisons, and wonder why we don't trust the news, or wonder why they skew stories so whatever they're feeding us is more pallatable. People are like little kids who their vegetables, and want them covered in butter, or fed like an "airplane", or just thrown on the floor. Except, the vegetables here are their freedoms, and they can't handle the reality before to accept responsibility and the reactions it gives the.
Whatever your CHOOSE is, at least you GET one. At least you had one. As many have pointed out, around the world people don't get choices. And still other's act as if they DON'T want a choice. If you don't like the video, DO NOT INVITE IT INTO YOUR REALITY. SHUT IT OFF. Same as this post. If you don't like me, or don't like what I say, TUNE out. Otherwise you're only begging for more of the same. That is what our world is meant to be....CHOICE...for everyone. It's what women have fought for. It's what African-Americans fought for. It's what even the Irish fought for when they came here. And it's what the Founding Father's fought for. Choice. You may not like it, but it's better than not choosing and getting what you don't like without a chance to CHOOSE differently.
A-Unit
I saw the videos online. Yahoo to be expect. When I was actually watching tv, my gf decided she couldn't handle it, and I didn't really care about seeing it anyway. I got home, logged online, and saw his rant. His tirade. My initial reaction was: "He Sounds Like Napolean Dynamite." He was obviously messed up, and this tirade appeared directed at the students. It was a disgusting video, to say the least.
Yet, people, especially on the radio are OUTRAGED that NBC actually put this out, viewing it as promotional material for them, or that it was so crude and ruthless it should have been withheld. My first reaction was the same. It was disrespectful and horrific to put that on tv. But then you know what? It dawned on me.
THIS is the price of the First Amendment. News sources aside, the video WOULD easily be available with the advancement of technology and the internet. Everyone would have seen it. And chosen to see it. Freedom isn't something that's nice and pretty. When the Constitution was written, the world wasn't a perfect place, and even now we can agree it's nowhere closer to that goal. But even if your reaction is complete disgust, there's still the elements of:
-You chose to turn it on
-You chose to keep it on
-You've chosen to purchase cable
-You chose to watch THAT station, at that time, with THAT on
-You CHOOSE your reaction to the video
Freedom and free speech and the world, isn't some polite place. If bad elements exist, they will always collide with the good elements. Yeah, maybe the video was bad or hurt you or hurt the families or rehashed the moments of the past days. But that's freedom. That's personal responsibility. People are going to cry out that we're going to heck in a hand basket. That more controls need to be made. But then, we create our own prisons, and wonder why we don't trust the news, or wonder why they skew stories so whatever they're feeding us is more pallatable. People are like little kids who their vegetables, and want them covered in butter, or fed like an "airplane", or just thrown on the floor. Except, the vegetables here are their freedoms, and they can't handle the reality before to accept responsibility and the reactions it gives the.
Whatever your CHOOSE is, at least you GET one. At least you had one. As many have pointed out, around the world people don't get choices. And still other's act as if they DON'T want a choice. If you don't like the video, DO NOT INVITE IT INTO YOUR REALITY. SHUT IT OFF. Same as this post. If you don't like me, or don't like what I say, TUNE out. Otherwise you're only begging for more of the same. That is what our world is meant to be....CHOICE...for everyone. It's what women have fought for. It's what African-Americans fought for. It's what even the Irish fought for when they came here. And it's what the Founding Father's fought for. Choice. You may not like it, but it's better than not choosing and getting what you don't like without a chance to CHOOSE differently.
A-Unit
