The Imminent Peril to America's First Freedoms
It's only common sense to preserve that which gurantees our independence
In one bold declaration, our liberty as Americans was defined. Once constituted as a nation, the ability of government to limit that liberty was quickly ordered. We call it the First Amendment, enumerating our first freedoms of Religion and Speech.
The First Amendment was first for a reason. It underscored not only the importance of faith and expression to the foundation of liberty, but that they were inextricably linked, twin bulwarks in its defense.
Today, political correctness has balkanized the body politic, replacing our uniquely American ethos of unity with a kind of personal orthodoxy, embodied in the politics of sensitivity and offense. It would be laughable if it weren’t so perilous to freedom.
The purpose of free speech is to make democracy possible. But political correctness, along with its allies judicial activism, hate speech, and thought crimes, imperil the guarantee of our unalienable rights and ultimately rendering it impossible.
If speech can be so manipulated, our very protection against tyranny is at risk. If thought, and by extension religious belief, can have the force of law set against them, liberty no longer becomes universal but approved or denied by a particular political class. Equally pernicious is the belief that follows – that unfavorable political thought and expression can be restricted and punished. If liberty can be thus denied, why not life? And if life falls, pursuit of happiness becomes moot.
Common Sense Issues believes liberty lost will not be easily re-won, that our voice – personal and public – must be preserved. We believe the common sense course is to defend liberty at all costs now, as the price of tyranny impoverishes us all.
If you agree, please join us in a common sense movement to defend liberty now.
