"Control, or Controlled?"

What does it mean to “be in control”? I know what it means to control your temper, controlling your emotions so you don’t do anything foolish or harmful to yourself or someone else. I know what a coach means when he says he wants to take control in a game situation, and dictate the pace of a game to achieve a victory. I understand what the police do when they control an altercation to avoid an escalation to violence. I have seen farmers do a controlled burning of their fields to clear them for the next planting season.

Over the course of our lives, we try to control most of our actions so our plans work out for us. We control our finances when at all possible to avoid unforeseen expenses and expenditures. We try to control our eating habits so we won’t gain too much weight and maintain a healthy diet. We have a government which exercises controls over many aspects of our lives.

Our Constitution gives us the ability to exercise control over our individual rights with as little government interference as possible; this is a guarantee under our Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of our Constitution. You could call these amendments the “10 Commandments of America” and you wouldn’t be too far off in that statement. Americans need to control their Congress, and not the other way around!

I did a blog about two years ago about the Bill of Rights and how it has impacted the American character and way of life. Those words are more than just flowery language filled with platitudes; they are a guideline of how to protect our individual freedom from any oppressive government.

Someone once said “A society that sacrifices freedom for security will, in the end, lose them both”, truer words were never spoken.

On the heels of the re-election of Barack Obama, several members of Congress and the liberal media said Rush Limbaugh should be taken off the radio. This type of talk is something we all should fear, whether liberal or conservative; free speech must be guarded at all cost, or we will end up in a land of single opinion with no room for dissent. This policy is only used in countries which follow a dictator and have NO PLACE IN AMERICA!

Recently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that “The right controls the news media”. Aside from laughing after I heard this, I was astounded that a so-called educated man said this. I must assume that Mr. Kennedy only listens to Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, and only watches FOX NEWS and has totally disregarded ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and Headline News. I can’t understand how Mr. Kennedy came to his ridiculous conclusion, as the majority of the media, both print and television. are practically joined at the hip with every liberal viewpoint in today’s political forum. If Mr. Kennedy’s hypothesis was true, then next month we would be watching Mitt Romney take the Presidential Oath of Office instead of Barack Obama.

Media control belongs to the left, and that is unfortunate for all Americans who want unbiased reporting of ALL ISSUES.

We, the people, must exercise CONTROL or we will lose much more than some talk radio hosts; that Bill of Rights we prize so much will vanish into the hands of a master manipulator!