I am starting off with a link to Salon about Rand Paul. I make no bones about not liking my Senators. I find both of the them self serving and unable to represent me. This audio clip from another of my least favorite person's (Sean Hannity) radio show gives me another example of why I thought we would never elect this idiot to the Senate. I was wrong and we did elect him. The clip is bad in what he says but it is worse when I apply my on bias (hi Keefer) to what I think he is meaning.
First, he is not saying that people are not allowed to say what they think about the government but they should be deported or put in prison for listening to what others are saying. The Freedom of Assembly allows us to gather and to talk about anything as long as we do it peacefully. This includes the crazy people who protest at funerals to the KKK who protested against them this past weekend to Greenpeace and Sierra Club in front of whale ships and loggers to Tea Party rallies talking about a 2nd Amendment to our problems to preachers in a pulpit talking about social issues and race. We have the right to do this without the government tracking us, deporting us, or imprisoning us. I find the clip very telling about the Senator and his libertarian ideals. Government tracking and jailing people because of where they go and listen does not fit with the ideas he tries to project.
Secondly, my bias now comes out in 2 ways. The first is with whom he is speaking. Sean Hannity has made it a point link President Obama to his former Pastor Jeremiah Wright. The pointed use in the clip on religious speech that people listen too made me think of the connection Hannity keeps making toward the President as being anti-American because he sit in Rev Wright's church for years. Hannity does not mention it in the clip but my knowledge of his past programs made a fast jump to that. If I can do it so can other listeners of Hannity's program. The second point of bias comes from knowing a little about Rand. The Aqua Budda issue helped to get him elected last year because it was a question about his religious beliefs. Now in this clip he is singling out religious speech as a problem. He makes a point not to mean just Islam but all religions. As a Christian this scares me as much as an American losing my right to freely assemble does. He does not address the other types of assembly (KKK, Phelps family, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Tea Party). He is saying we need to monitor the speech of people on religion. This a jump that I made after listening to the clip a few times.
I am not going to take the time to get into the idea of deportation and the implied ideas there. I will close with we need to start listening to each other, our pastors and even Hannity and Rand. We need to listen and then use our good judgement as for what is true and best.
First, he is not saying that people are not allowed to say what they think about the government but they should be deported or put in prison for listening to what others are saying. The Freedom of Assembly allows us to gather and to talk about anything as long as we do it peacefully. This includes the crazy people who protest at funerals to the KKK who protested against them this past weekend to Greenpeace and Sierra Club in front of whale ships and loggers to Tea Party rallies talking about a 2nd Amendment to our problems to preachers in a pulpit talking about social issues and race. We have the right to do this without the government tracking us, deporting us, or imprisoning us. I find the clip very telling about the Senator and his libertarian ideals. Government tracking and jailing people because of where they go and listen does not fit with the ideas he tries to project.
Secondly, my bias now comes out in 2 ways. The first is with whom he is speaking. Sean Hannity has made it a point link President Obama to his former Pastor Jeremiah Wright. The pointed use in the clip on religious speech that people listen too made me think of the connection Hannity keeps making toward the President as being anti-American because he sit in Rev Wright's church for years. Hannity does not mention it in the clip but my knowledge of his past programs made a fast jump to that. If I can do it so can other listeners of Hannity's program. The second point of bias comes from knowing a little about Rand. The Aqua Budda issue helped to get him elected last year because it was a question about his religious beliefs. Now in this clip he is singling out religious speech as a problem. He makes a point not to mean just Islam but all religions. As a Christian this scares me as much as an American losing my right to freely assemble does. He does not address the other types of assembly (KKK, Phelps family, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Tea Party). He is saying we need to monitor the speech of people on religion. This a jump that I made after listening to the clip a few times.
I am not going to take the time to get into the idea of deportation and the implied ideas there. I will close with we need to start listening to each other, our pastors and even Hannity and Rand. We need to listen and then use our good judgement as for what is true and best.
