Blog Post Five

AntiWar Voices

    After looking over and studying these two sources: ANTIWAR.COM  and American Conservative, I can confidently say that I am more confused than ever. First of all, the AntiWar website is so disorganized and I don't recognize any of the headlines that I may see on social media or mainstream headlines. It focuses on links to other news sources that allow for voices and opinions on AntiWar. As for the American Conservative website, it is easier to navigate, however, it holds the same concept as the AntiWar website with headlines that one may not recognize from where one finds their news sources. On top of these websites being difficult to navigate, I would have never found them if it wasn't for this class. Makes me wonder if there might be a reason why I couldn't find them before...

    War seems to be a tool that our government uses to fight against what we see as injustices and because of that, they wouldn't want their citizens protesting every war or every conflict we get involved with. Also, the people who make money off of war, don't want us to hear the other side of those who have strong AntiWar voices. When there is money involved, people get defensive and don't let anything stand in the way of those making the money.

    In the past, some were persecuted for their AntiWar voices, opinions, and views, and now the government still tries to keep those opinions quiet in the hope to keep America out of the war. To throw those into jail just for voicing their opinions in the past and now taking away individuals' first amendment rights becomes such a disheartening thing to hear for our country. These websites proved just that; hide the voices of those who are causing more trouble for our government which people need to start realizing is a violation of our freedom of speech right. However, for Americans, this is not something we are custom to and Americans are supposed to encourage war rather than oppose that theory and not want to consider war.