Letter: Practice your right to go to voting booth

When Uncle Joe Stalin who ruled the Soviet Union gave a speech, the applause lasted until Stalin signaled his audience to stop clapping and cheering. Everyone in the audience would have clapped until his hands were bleeding for fear of being spotted as the first one to stop clapping.

Not one person in all of the USSR would publicly disagree with whatever Uncle Joe was expounding. To do so meant imprisonment or death. The USSR had to build walls in order to keep their citizens from escaping to some place that allowed freedom of expression and freedom to disagree.

Since this writer is not aware of any Libertarian or Republican organization or student group advocating for the abridgment of free speech, it can be assumed that protest groups and politicians supporting the goal of "correct speech" will be voting Democrat, Socialist or Communist -- depending on what is possible on the voting ballot.

The murderer called Uncle Joe by President Roosevelt is what happens to politics when the government determines what rights the people will be allowed to exercise. Normally this determination means the right to agree with their rulers.

Vote.

Peter F. Zych

Hilton Head Island

This story was originally published December 4, 2015 at 1:22 PM with the headline "Letter: Practice your right to go to voting booth."