Response to CA

1st let me say thank you to CA for sending this link out. I think that Kevin Hotaling succinctly wrapped up all of our feelings in class, as well as the world's opinion of America/Americans.

Kevin starts out talking about the war between Colorado students. I find that ironic because we fought in class as they did in the picket lines. Nothing gets resolved that way. When we are tired of yelling the end result hasn't changed.

With out a doubt Kevin hit the mark with this paragraph. "We certainly should defend freedom of speech with all our might, but there is a huge gap between saying something and influencing someone. If we are to truly respect freedom of speech, we must have the intelligence and desire to access and assess diverse ideas. Churchill's intention was to enlighten the public by offering an opposing take on the causes of 9/11."

Freedom of speech is the basis of this country we all need our 15 minutes to talk and be heard. The last part is the most important. "BE HEARD" if we don't feel we are being heard... we get louder...the terrorists did the same thing. They were not being listened to and so they did something we would hear. If Churchill would have used the words in the above paragraph instead of using absurd references and words that made him sound mean, and spiteful. He would have been taken a lot more seriously. The connotation is set for people to be relaxed and not automatically jump to a defensive position. While Churchill wanted to enlighten, all he managed to do was to make people mad!