DEBATE: Passion part of the process

It's a truly sad state we find ourselves in as a nation when we as an entire nation allow the vocal few to act as though they represent the reasonable majority.

Have we become such a politically correct nation that the only ones who are not "PC" are the people fueled with hatred, speaking out against everyone BUT them for "hateful, vitriol and violence inducing speech?"

Isn't their very act of pointing fingers without any need to even prove their statements, the exact things they claim to speak out against? If you doubt that, go to huffingtonpost.com and foxnation.com today and just read the comments after nearly all the stories. I am finding it very hard to see reasonably minded Americans who wish to engage in meaningful and *gasp* passionate debate.

I cannot imagine the goals of our forefathers were to fight for freedom from an oppressive nation, shed blood for that cause, just so that 200-plus years later, that same nation can only debate the emotional issues of the day with a 7-second delay and a censor ready to bleep every word that has any emotion tied to it.

I've got it...

Why don't we all smurf the smurf and when the smurf finally smurfs, we will be smurfity smurf smurf smurf.

Yes, sometimes words can be very mean-spirited and even full of hate. Sometimes pundits and the media are something other than unbiased. And sometimes really crazy individuals just do really crazy things. May God continue to bless us all.

KEN KARL

Post Falls