Freedom Of Speech Analysis

The American people tend to love a rebel. We have been raised on the tales of Luke Skywalker defeating the tyrannical Empire, hallowed stories of Katniss Everdeen committing war crimes, or too-mad-to-play-Mad Max Mel Gibson leading the Scots against a sociopath called Longshanks. Privileged people such as myself are rarely in the position to be forced to fight against the power. While it is difficult to put myself in the mindset of someone who would deem it necessary, I am aware of some injustices that I would rebel for: democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.
The first thing that would make me want to fight back against any government is if my right to vote was inhibited. Just because I’m a minor and can’t legally vote doesn’t
I don’t really think that a three year old should be kicking the president, but as a basic human right, I should be allowed to. There are places in the world where you would be drawn and quartered for speaking out against the regime. Even simple things like the film The Interview can cause massive uproars in a country controlled by a dictator. Freedom of speech is massively important to insuring the true freedom of a nation’s populus. Similar to exercising the right to vote, freedom of speech is something I am disappointed in people for using inappropriately. It seems like the only time you hear someone say “It’s a free country; I can say what I want!” is when they are being unnecessarily rude for no reason other than to inflate their own shallow ego. I wish that more people would speak out against the malicious politicians with their nefarious schemes, the charlatans, and the crooked cops that plague the nation rather than squandering this by attempting to get away with using slurs. The freedom of speech is still necessary to a democracy, even if the masses refuse to use it
It is difficult to imagine myself actually ever being in the position to do what I claimed I would and fight for the right to vote, the freedom of speech, and the separation of church and state. While I’d prefer not to fight anyone, if a group threatened the rights of the people then I would follow in the footsteps of generations of idealists and revolutionaries in hopes of building a better