If you say Its A Free Country you’re about to disappoint someone
Listen, I love this country and democracy and freedom and flags and guns as much as anyone. But. If you’re in a situation where you’re telling someone else, “It’s a free country,” well, you’re probably doing something stupid.
Not that you don’t have a right to say that. You do. It’s right there in the First Amendment. But, the fact that you can say “It’s a free country” does not give you the right to throw a bean burrito at a passing car. Even though it’s really funny.
I’m willing to bet that at no point has someone who said that they lived in a free country gone on to do something productive. That phrase has never been followed by someone donating to charity or rescuing a kitten from a tree or enlisting for military service.
Nope. If you say the dreaded “It’s a Free Country” you are 100% about to be an asshole or disappoint someone. James Madison and the Constitutional Crew didn’t work to create a Bill of Rights for some idiot from Kentucky to explain to his teacher why he can chew dip in class. That is not considered exercising your Constitutional right.
I’m excited to hear from the throngs of Constitutional scholars who read this site to chime in on this one.
It’s a free country and I don’t have to comment on this story if I don’t want to. I think instead I will go drive around in my Kia and tailgate people while talking on the cell phone and throwing my empty fast food containers right out the window. It’s a free country!