WHEN DOES FREE SPEECH BECOME ANARCHY?

Recognizing the number of people involved and the diversity of ethnicities and religious beliefs, not to mention differing values and priorities, it is little wonder that agreement will never be unanimous on anything. However, in our democracy, we make decisions by majority vote up to a certain point. Beyond that, some decisions are given over to the people with the job title which gives them the decision-making powers. Somehow, the majority of people do not seem to catch on to that last part. Everyone thinks they are equal to the President because they cast their one vote for him, or like Rush Limbaugh, because they didn't vote for him.

This has become a problem. I guess it has ever been present in our society, which is now more potential for danger to us all because the media reaches more people than ever before and is no longer impartially reporting news but trying to control the news. There was a time when people recognized the difference between activism and anarchism but those categories have become blurred and few people seem to be getting the difference.

There is an 8 part YouTube presentation on anarchism. It is really worth watching in its entirety, though it will take some time.

When Rush Limbaugh tells his millions of listeners (many of whom see his every word as Gospel) that he hopes Obama fails, to me is is speaking anarchism. The cartoon depicting the ape being shot and the text saying that now someone else would have to write the Stimulus Package is, to me, a step toward anarchy. I do not know where the law draws the line between free speech and anarchy.

We remain in dangerous times and angry people ought to closely examine the real source of their anger and how it is so often displaced onto the wrong target. People in positions of media's long reaching power need to be especially careful. Since the owners of the media seem not to care about the content as long as the money comes in, the dangers increase as they have been permitted to own too many outlets, more than the previously wise law permitted.

Stronger voices need to become active to push down voices out their trying, through purpose or ignorance, working towards bringing down our government rather than trying to support it.