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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (121641)	9/23/2012 11:29:27 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

You raise an excellent parallel with the LGBT situation. You take about the laws of the Supreme Court of the US. They are talking about their prophet. They are not imposing their religion or their religious laws on us. All they are telling us is to leave them alone. This guy Bacile needs to go back to Egypt and say those things there. Now ask yourself this. You are in the company of a group. They say something to another group that incites them to action and in the bargain you get hurt. What is the wisest thing to do. Would you go after the other group and clash and kill a few more people and the process have some few more guys from your group hurt. Or would you tell the person from your group who started it all in the first to stop saying thing against the prophet that cause the violence in the first. You talk about physical aggression by way of violence. There is also mental aggression and damage. After all this country, for all the claims it makes about being modern etc. does not fully realize the intricacies of mental health. Mental well being cannot be ensured with visits to shrinks. It is a product of the society, the security provided through societal philosophies that promotes the love for peace and non-violence. In fact that is desired more than exercise of rights. Look at history and it is replete with exercise of free speech as manifested by folks like Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King, Bishop Tutu, the Dalai Lama and on and on. President Obama realizes that. I think he derives his strength from folks like these that prompts our press to call him "the no drama Obama." Notice the other day how Hillary lost her cool on the situation in Libya. And Obama followed her to podium, he was a picture of calm and poise. Less talk, just actions. Let us ensure that we do not get carried away in the heat of the moment and that the right to free speech does not encroach on the rights of the people such as the Muslims which by virtue of being the youngest religion has had a history of persecution by other religions that were well established then. Pursuit of doing things in a peaceful and non-violent way by our society trumps the desire for exercise of right to free speech in a situation like this one.