Freedom has NEVER been SAFE
Freedom has been the opportunity to take risks, to travel a path of one's own design, to chance the outcome of one's own action.
Freedom is something which every healthy child envisions from the point of learning to move on one's own initiative. Children are given parents to teach them that freedom can have consequences, and freedom can be removed by those in power ... in this case the parent(s) or designated caretaker. This impingement of freedoms is always for the sake of the child, to protect and nurture, to keep from harm, to maintain a level of safety.
I am not a child. The majority of people in this country are not children. People migrate illegally and legally to this country in hope of freedom. Those who come to this country for the sake of "safety" are few and far between; lives are risked daily just for the opportunity to make it beyond our borders and become a small part of The United States of America.
I may not be able to do all the things this freedom grants me the right to do, but that does not mean I willingly give up that freedom in those areas or any areas. I do not want someone to protect me in any way which impinges on my Constitutional and societal rights.
If you want safety, true safety, then find a way to get into a nice Federal prison. You'll have room and board, medical care, dental care, free laundry of the clothes provided you and the very sheets you sleep upon. Generally, no one can blow your home up, rob you, or sneak up and kill you when you're not looking.
Notice please: I said "generally"
Realize please: The only truly safe place would be isolation, no contact with any other human beings, everything controlled by unthinking nonjudgmental machinery and software ... and then you'd better hope there is never a power failure or a sneaky virus or . . .
Are you starting to understand now?
Freedom is something which every healthy child envisions from the point of learning to move on one's own initiative. Children are given parents to teach them that freedom can have consequences, and freedom can be removed by those in power ... in this case the parent(s) or designated caretaker. This impingement of freedoms is always for the sake of the child, to protect and nurture, to keep from harm, to maintain a level of safety.
I am not a child. The majority of people in this country are not children. People migrate illegally and legally to this country in hope of freedom. Those who come to this country for the sake of "safety" are few and far between; lives are risked daily just for the opportunity to make it beyond our borders and become a small part of The United States of America.
I may not be able to do all the things this freedom grants me the right to do, but that does not mean I willingly give up that freedom in those areas or any areas. I do not want someone to protect me in any way which impinges on my Constitutional and societal rights.
If you want safety, true safety, then find a way to get into a nice Federal prison. You'll have room and board, medical care, dental care, free laundry of the clothes provided you and the very sheets you sleep upon. Generally, no one can blow your home up, rob you, or sneak up and kill you when you're not looking.
Notice please: I said "generally"
Realize please: The only truly safe place would be isolation, no contact with any other human beings, everything controlled by unthinking nonjudgmental machinery and software ... and then you'd better hope there is never a power failure or a sneaky virus or . . .
Are you starting to understand now?
Freedom has NEVER been SAFE
Someone like the citizens of Iraq?
Someone like the people in Afghanistan who grow poppy because it pays enough to feed the whole family?
Someone like the victims in Lebanon, being paid to rebuild by "the guys in the black hats"?
As for me, give me liberty ... I'll not ask for the "death" option, because I still have a bit of hope, a hope that this country can survive another two years of being kept so safe everyone lives with hunched backs and constant looking over a shoulder, left and then right, and then front and back, hoping that The Safety Police do not decide to make the world safe from me.
So please Mr. President, go make life safe for someone else!
Someone like the citizens of Iraq?
Someone like the people in Afghanistan who grow poppy because it pays enough to feed the whole family?
Someone like the victims in Lebanon, being paid to rebuild by "the guys in the black hats"?
As for me, give me liberty ... I'll not ask for the "death" option, because I still have a bit of hope, a hope that this country can survive another two years of being kept so safe everyone lives with hunched backs and constant looking over a shoulder, left and then right, and then front and back, hoping that The Safety Police do not decide to make the world safe from me.
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