If ever we could stand to take a good long look at ourselves, a clear and undistorted one, at where we are as a country, it’s right now.
1. With freedom comes responsibility.
2. Comparison with the past can give context. How does real terrorism begin? This entire linked article is first-rate, but the part beginning below the box is to me the most important information. The article was written in 2009, but the analysis remains top-notch.
3. There’s nothing better than a bracing dose of cold, clear facts. Are the two sides ‘just as bad’ as each other? No way. Want proof, facts, evidence? Here’s some good, complete, in-depth research and fact-finding. Melissa McEwan lays it out for you.
4. Can speech that does not quite tell anyone to do anything violent, but does everything else to get a target in the public eye, still be responsible for causing the harm that follows from it? Read this article.
5. The Supreme Court decision of June 26, 2008, may well have marked the beginning of a great many incidents, of which this is only the latest. Check this lengthy list.
I learned a lot from these posts; I hope both my readers will do so, too.
