This weekend's destruction of Toronto in the name of "Freedom of Expression", shows that it is not law or law enforcement that maintain social order but common decency. It is clear there was an element active this weekend completely devoid of common decency, and in a system that offers freedom of expression as a right, millions of dollars of security and 20,000 police officers were powerless in protecting the rest of us from their destruction.
From my understanding of 'Anarchism' supported by wikipedia, it is a societal system where we don't need government because we are mature enough to take care of ourselves and each other. This weekends 'protests' show the opposite. In reality they go a long way to show that freedom of expression should probably be a privilege granted to those mature enough to handle it. Obviously, there is no organization that I would ever trust with the power to grant and rescind freedom of expression. However, looking at these images, makes you wish there was a pass fail exam for common decency before some these people were let out of their parents basements. Maybe they could read about real oppression while they are waiting to earn their freedom of expression license, so if they actually experience it they can respond accordingly.
My father always told me, "Freedom is not the right to do whatever you want, but the power to do whatever is right."
Sunday, June 27, 2010
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