Rest in Peace

The national government's choices puzzle me sometimes. We are taught from the beginning that it exists to rule us and ensures that it may know what is best for us and society even though it sometimes chooses oddities that rule in the favor of something unpopular and unwanted...

Well, what about certain civil liberties guaranteed after death? Does the government protect those? Not really. You may be surprised to hear that the Supreme Court ruled in the favor of the Westboro Baptist Church on March 2, 2011 against a fellow soldier, Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in the line of duty. Now the Westboro Baptist Church has been known to picket numerous military funerals with signs saying outrageous and offensive remarks like "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "God Hates Fags" like they had at this soldier's funeral. However, even though the popular opinion is that this is highly unacceptable, the Supreme Court-- and by extension, the national government, had ruled in favor for the Westboro Baptist Church because of our first amendment granting freedom of speech.

Although we are granted the freedom of speech, there should be something passed by the national government that will guaranteed some sort of respect after death. Shouldn't we receive some civil liberties after death, like perhaps, not having our own funerals protested by the WBC? This puzzles me as it seems like something that should be only natural. Everyone would want their death to be at least respected. I extremely disagree the national government's choice in ruling for the Westboro Baptist Church because everyone deserves a moment of silence out of respect--especially for fellow soldiers and urge them to consider giving us a right to at least rest in peace.

RE: "Blog Bless America": U.S. National Government

Jocelyn Puga, author of the blog "Blog Bless America", writes that a problem we have with our national government is with "transparency" because the government hides so much information from the public and that our President needs to "show that he is the right choice". I agree completely with these statements because the government spies on us yet won't let us know any information about the shady things they are conducting that will affect us and our liberties. The President is supposed to be like our daddy, protecting us from the evils of the world. In this case, we are dependent on our President to bring a stop to the unfair practices the government is going about. Unfortunately, it seems like this isn't going to happen any time soon, but hopefully it will. President Obama needs to hear what the American people are saying. It is just like Jocelyn said, the President needs to show that he is the right choice.