Our country fails without freedom of speech, plain and simple.

I realize this, which is why even though I may feel the occasional urge to verbally, perhaps physically, thrash the fat-faced likes of Glenn Beck, I at the very least acknowledge his condescending half-chuckled nonsense is somehow a representative pillar of our society.

I know every adult must put forth his or her unrestricted opinions and expressed contentions in order for others to re-evaluate their own viewpoints, and in the case of the aforementioned hack, to re-affirm their own assertions by comparison to a ridiculous third party. Notice, however, I specify this freedom is reserved for adults, who have reached a mature level of thought through experience.

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