Freedom is Bleeding

Consider the state of freedom for a moment and you may be surprised at what has happened in the past 20 years.  Being gay is accepted.  Being multi-racial is okay too.  Athesist?  No problem.  Most of the big taboo things that should have been a part of freedom but for centuries were not, have come to acceptance at last.  Pull back that shiny veil of freedom that so many enjoy and you'll see the inner decay that has come to pass with freedom, mostly freedom of speech.

Nowadays, rap stars, pop artists and heavy metal maven's can screech, purr or whine about anything from drugs, sex and murder in the most explicit of fashion.  Most people won't even blink at eye to this, a far cry from 20 years ago.  It seems like a glorious age of self expression.  Twitter, Facebook and blogs permeate our everyday lives; social media is here to stay.  But when you are in the public eye and say something somewhat off color, the masses swarm to the news agencies and brand you a heretic for [insert fashionable objection here].  These are the same news agencies and people that blast "Fuck You" by Cee Lo Green and rattle on about how which ever political faction is doing this or that to curb your freedoms.

A high school girl in Kansas, Emma Sullivan, just recently posted on Twitter about how much Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (of Kansas) sucked. It was shortly thereafter that she was reprimanded by her high school principle for over and hour and was told she had to pen an official apology.  Does this sound like the land of the free and the home of the brave?  Nay I say.  Freedom is bleeding from a thousand wounds caused by the people who were sworn to protect it.  It seems that the very thing that was a right and worth dying for is now a liability. 

And just for the record, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and his staff, do suck.