And therein lies the crux!
What Alex does with HIS MONEY is none of my business. Who Alex chooses to speak for is none of my business.
My boy and I were watching the history channel not too long ago, they were doing a program on the racial tensions and such that started in the '50's. He was surprised to see the hatred and open violence of the k-k-k-klub.
That opened the door for a learning experience. I got to explain that no matter how disgusting we personally feel about someone's First Amendment right, we have a civic responsibility to protect their freedom of political speech. If we want to enjoy our liberties, then we must preserve them - fruits aren't grown on mountaintops, they're grown in the valleys. Protection of liberties is often done at the 'lowest levels'.
The cool thing is - and I give myself much of the credit - my kid is so smart and deep that he understood that sometimes good citizens like us have to stand up for the rights of scum to spew hate-speech. And trust me on this one, the Founding Fathers had political speech (and donations ARE exercising political free speech!) MUCH more in mind than hate-speech, or today's pornography.
If Alex wants to donate money to a socialist with aspirations of grandeur, that's HIS business. NOT MINE.
Needless to say, I won't donate money to any socialist, but by attempting to force Alex to not do so is completely un-American. Eh! It's exactly - EXACTLY - the same tactic the socio-communists have used in this country for decades. I won't do that.
Now the only thing that IS my business is the quality of the product. If I see a better product out there, Alex ain't getting my money! Until something better comes along though, Alex EARNED my money, and therefore has the RIGHT - God given entitlement! - to spend it however he cares to.
I think Alex and I could come to a wonderful agreement: I won't attempt to coerce him into not donating to a socialist, he won't attempt to coerce me into not donating for a Constitutionalist ;D And that, boys and girls, is how adults act in a proper society!
With that having been said, Terra, how is my new carbine coming along? >
