Fighting For Our Freedom

           Recently, there were some students at Yale university signing a petition to repeal the 1st amendment. If you watch the video, it's basically this guy who wanted to do a sort of test, so he created a fake petition to repeal the first amendment and stared asking Yale students to sign it. In an hour he got over 50 signatures. The fact that over 50 students at Yale, where some of the brightest and most intelligent students go to college, signed petition like that is beyond words.
           The 1st amendment grants Americans freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, AND petition! So basically, if there were no first amendment, those students wouldn't have the freedom to sign that petition, or any petition, in the first place! The absence of understanding in those students minds almost scares me. The fact that about 70 years ago college age students were fighting in wars to defend our basic freedoms, and now they're trying to repeal those same freedoms because they're offended is just crazy! The first amendment is basically the foundation of what we stand for. Without it, we wouldn't be the United States of America!
            Our problem isn't that these students are dumb, it's just that they haven't been presented with the right facts and wisdom to understand exactly what they're signing. We, as students, are going to inherit this great nation from our parents and grandparents not too long from now. It's about time we started researching and thinking about our views, and becoming more involved in our government.
            This country is spiraling downward really quickly. As Ronald Reagan said: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
            By the looks of this generation, the original values of this country are going to be nothing but rubble within 30 years. I don't want that to happen, and I will fight until my last breath to keep it from happening.
-Chloe