To those who say that raising anti-national slogans is not basis enough for a sedition charge, or that it infringes on Freedom of Speech, I say this:
Freedom has responsibilities: The ultra-liberal quote that "you are free to feel whatever you want to and so do I" has to recognize the fact that there are some necessary limitations and restrictions due to responsibilities and others' rights. Absolute freedom, minus responsibility, ranges from irresponsibility and chaos, to tyranny. Simply put, one's rights cannot triumph others' rights, nor state of unity.
We enjoy the freedom, because, together we have established the state which grants us these. One cannot seek more freedom at the cost of the state - such internal weakness is the cause when civilization crumbles, and barbarism reigns.
As has been rightly said, "We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense."
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