While confined her in the Bacon Computer Center, I came across your recent statement calling the scandalous Kentucky clerk, Mrs.Kim Davis, “a hero”. Seldom do I pause to answer criticism or respond to the work and ideas of others, but this has called out to me to respond in a way I cannot describe. I will however, detail and specify all of the points of your letter that are improper and wrong, and will correct them accordingly. I would just like to remind you, Mr.Thoreau, what year we are living in. 2015. Far from the days of civil disobedience you and I lived through. You observed the new citizens of America being “tricked” by the government. I observed the Black community being oppressed by the government. We are now observing the LGBT
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In one of my own speeches, The Ballot of the Bullet, I discuss the possible outcomes and ongoings in our country. I talked about the Government, and the Dixiecrats and Democrats, and the way they tricked their own citizens to vote for them with unkept promises, not unlike what your “hero” is doing today. “...I'm not anti-Democrat,” I said. “I'm not anti-Republican, I'm not anti-anything. I'm just questioning their sincerity, and some of the strategy that they've been using on our people by promising them promises that they don't intend to keep.” Mind you, this was written years ago, and perhaps this group of politicians has changed in their ways of deceiving our people so that it’s not as noticeable. If so, I still can question their sincerity, the way I can question Kim Davis’s about her job serving her community. Her “promise” that she doesn’t intend to keep is her becoming a clerk to marry her fellow neighbors, and then rejecting all who come to …show more content…
Especially if you were the one being oppressed.These are issues of society as a whole. It impacts us all, and we have to live with it. Because if you think one group of people is more deserving than another, your ideas are prejudiced, and that is the exact same society we are trying NOT to live in. I would like to bring to your attention a quote you said in Civil Disobedience, “Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?- in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislation?” Mr.Thoreau, If we passed laws solely on conscience, do you honestly think our country would have gotten ANYWHERE in the past 200 years? May I remind you that we still have racists, homophobes, and the like still living in our country. And may I remind you that they make up a much bigger percentage of the population that most would like. In some areas, they are the majority. And by using your “majority versus minority” tactic, they would make the law. They would make an unequal law, for their own benefit. Therefore, they are immora, which I know is something you do not want people to
In one of my own speeches, The Ballot of the Bullet, I discuss the possible outcomes and ongoings in our country. I talked about the Government, and the Dixiecrats and Democrats, and the way they tricked their own citizens to vote for them with unkept promises, not unlike what your “hero” is doing today. “...I'm not anti-Democrat,” I said. “I'm not anti-Republican, I'm not anti-anything. I'm just questioning their sincerity, and some of the strategy that they've been using on our people by promising them promises that they don't intend to keep.” Mind you, this was written years ago, and perhaps this group of politicians has changed in their ways of deceiving our people so that it’s not as noticeable. If so, I still can question their sincerity, the way I can question Kim Davis’s about her job serving her community. Her “promise” that she doesn’t intend to keep is her becoming a clerk to marry her fellow neighbors, and then rejecting all who come to …show more content…
Especially if you were the one being oppressed.These are issues of society as a whole. It impacts us all, and we have to live with it. Because if you think one group of people is more deserving than another, your ideas are prejudiced, and that is the exact same society we are trying NOT to live in. I would like to bring to your attention a quote you said in Civil Disobedience, “Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?- in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislation?” Mr.Thoreau, If we passed laws solely on conscience, do you honestly think our country would have gotten ANYWHERE in the past 200 years? May I remind you that we still have racists, homophobes, and the like still living in our country. And may I remind you that they make up a much bigger percentage of the population that most would like. In some areas, they are the majority. And by using your “majority versus minority” tactic, they would make the law. They would make an unequal law, for their own benefit. Therefore, they are immora, which I know is something you do not want people to