Letters: We don't need permission for our rights

Posted: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 3:15 am

I am a big supporter of the 1st and 2nd amendments, but there has to be limits or terrorists and criminals will take over the country.

For starters, there should be a three-day waiting period for the purchase of any pencil or pen. If you can’t wait three days to buy a pencil or pen, you’re probably a terrorist or criminal.

There should be a limit of three pencils or pens purchased max. Only a criminal or a terrorist needs more then three writing instruments. Pens and pencils with high capacity ink or lead magazines must be banned for the safety of our children. Far too many lives have been destroyed because of pencils and pens with high capacity magazines.

We can’t let criminals and insane nut jobs use the excuse of “free speech” to write their anti-American rubbish. Anyone who wants to exercise their 1st Amendment right must pass both a criminal and mental health background check from the FBI before receiving their “free speech” permit. Of course, there will be a $200 tax for this permit and it must be renewed every year.

There should be a three-week waiting period to allow the FBI to review any articles written by a person with a “free speech” permit before the article is published in any newspaper, journal or even on the internet. We can’t just let people use their “free speech” with out their thoughts and ideas being approved by a government nanny.

Last, anybody that buys ink by the gallon must be a criminal or terrorist who is up to no good. Ink purchases must be limited to a maximum of one fluid ounce with no more then three purchases a month.

Yes I know some nut jobs will say I want to turn America into a police state by taking away our free speech rights, but this isn’t anything new. We already have had laws that require the same thing for the purchase and use of guns.

I am just joking. If you have to get permission from the government to use your free speech right, America will become a police state just like America will become a police state if you are required to get permission from the government to exercise your Second Amendment rights.

Mike Ross, Tempe