Reflections on Independence Day
by Larry Flynt from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt
On Independence Day, I ask you to think about how many freedoms we have and how many we’re in danger of losing. Every day, the right wing moralists are trying to chip away at our basic civil liberties. They’re trying to restrict women’s access to healthcare, strip workers of their ability to earn a living wage and pass laws about who you can marry.
The right wing is fond of saying that freedom isn’t free. And they’re right. It isn’t. We see it in the cost of the lives of brave men and women in uniform. But it’s more that. I’ve said this many times, the freedom on which this country was founded is not the just freedom for the thoughts we love and agree with, it’s freedom for the thoughts we hate the most. That too is a cost of freedom which must be paid by everyone.
Today as we pay tribute to the bravery and sacrifices made to build this nation, it is important that we remember the full cost of liberty, and not forget that independence is more readily available when people remain focused on the fullest pursuit of their own happiness rather than condemning the way others pursue theirs.
Well said!
Larry’s hatred for the right has blinded him to the threat this country faces from the left. The left has always been sneakier and more under-handed than the right. Just look at what the lefts poster boy obama has done and wants still to do. I admit that i lean way to the right on most issues, I want the gov to stay outta my house. It sure seems to me that the left has made far more attempts to control peoples lives.
Cheers, Larry! What America needs is a true revolution like the French Revolution. “Off with their heads!” Maybe then fake Leftists AKA Democrats will stop being the slaves of Wall Street, Military Industrial Complex and/or Religious Rightists like the Republicans.
That Hit the Nail!! Just back from Right-wing Buggersfield california and couldn’t beilieve how bad the Republicians with all there OIL and Agriculture out there will let there town deteriate into the condition that particular town has gone!! Poor people everywhere and filthy!! If we put any of those rightwingers into office next term were in BIG trouble. Obama’s got to get this shit together and fast!
You’re brainwashed by the left/right paradigm, Travis. Corporations control both sides!
For once, Jeremy is right.
for once? why, that’s an outrage, i’ve been right at least twice as much… you’ll be hearing from my lawyer, Sue Yu! 😐
it’s too bad tot mom’s kid wasn’t Roy G.
In other news, astro-physicist says it’s the end of the world as we know it! My, my, were the Mayans right? “Katrina from outer space”! Life without working GPS or cell phones… months to years of potential paralysis!
World wide blackout from solar flares!
I think the U.S. has a lot more problems than some social conservatives clamping down on porn…but of course it’s all about Larry…what a narcissist!!! Yup, the government confiscating our wealth is no problem but if Larry can’t make his stupid ass fucking movies then we really lose our freedom.