Quorra2.0 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 8:02 amNo, they weren’t. The thousands that were there peacefully protesting were. The ones who attacked the Capitol were not. They were, by our own constitution committing treason and many of them have recognized and acknowledged this.BobCobbMagob wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 7:45 amAlright… then let’s all stop being so pissed off at the Jan. 6th people…Pjmm wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 5:49 pm
So be a pacifist if you believe the war is wrong. But the point of the saying is don’t be silent. Tell the government you think we shouldn’t send our sons and daughters to the Ukraine. My problem is you’re making it sound like this motto should not be put up at all. But it has to be. Otherwise governments and people will do things unopposed. People being silent is a big reason why we had a Holocaust. Separate but equal facilities. A cop kneeling on a man’s neck and a draft for an unpopular war. Pick a side and speak up! That’s what the motto means. I don’t see anything wrong with having it on school grounds.
They were just speaking up…. Right? Like how they’re taught?
No, I don’t think they do feel like they committed treason…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.--That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. . . “
We have to be careful with words… not everyone is going to read them the same as you and many people will feel vindicated in the uprising because we have equipped them with the feelings of deserved power to do so.
Since this is a post on how a quote may be misconstrued… the op is an easy one to point out how it could be.