EA's 4th of July Special: Man Who Fought For Americans' Rights Demands Americans Stop Exercising Their Rights

A special report from The Onion (and best wishes from EA to US readers for Independence Day):

Speaking before the U.S. Senate Tuesday, Herbert Macallum, a retired Wichita, KS, insurance salesman and Navy veteran who fought during World War II to protect the inalienable rights of all Americans, demanded that U.S. citizens stop exercising those rights.

"As someone who risked his life for this country, I am infuriated when I see protesters exercising their First Amendment rights by burning the U.S. flag," Macallum told legislators during a Senate debate over a proposed anti-flag-burning amendment. "I didn't fight the Japanese at Midway to save democracy for a bunch of long-haired jerks who want to freely express their views."

"I love the Constitution, and I nearly lost my life defending it," Macallum added. "That's why it angers me so much to see malcontents exploiting it for their own purposes."

Macallum is president of the Kansas Veterans' Council for Liberty & Restraint, one of a number of veterans' organizations calling upon Congress to pass anti-rights-use legislation. Under the provisions of the proposed legislation, any U.S. citizen convicted of exercising his or her Constitutional rights in a manner deemed controversial would face a fine and/or imprisonment.

Said KVCLR member Walter Mickleson, 81: "Wherever you look today, you see people using the First Amendment to openly criticize or protest the U.S. government. I don't think that's what the framers of the Constitution had in mind. And I, for one, didn't storm the beach at Normandy so I could see America dragged through the mud."

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[Dave]

QUOTING --

“I love the Constitution, and I nearly lost my life defending it,” Macallum added. “That’s why it angers me so much to see malcontents exploiting it for their own purposes.”

"When I entered the United States armed forces, I gave up my constitutional rights in order to be a soldier," Johnson said. "It was one of the proudest days of my life. I had never exercised my rights much before then, anyway. Let me tell you, if you'd fought and seen friends die to protect the God-given rights of all Americans, you'd want to keep them from exercising them, too."

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Hannibal Smith has something to say about this. It can be found at the end of the episode (link below). I just saw this episode a couple of days ago on TV.

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[Dave]

View from 43:25

[Dave]

This link works. The other one didn't work for me. Use the bar at the bottom to fast forward and wait for the commercial to end. It's worth seeing. View from 43:00

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[Baz]

In simple terms .......

Ice cream is GOOD. -- but too much Ice cream is NOT GOOD.

Barry

[Catherine]

I'm just waiting for Khayan to translate this and publish it as a straight story. :-)