That green broad in New York asked for huddled masses. That’s all well and good, but I want you to remember the last part of that sentence too… “yearning to be FREE.” Not as in FREE school lunches, FREE housing bailouts, et al. There are no free rights or free things — only free people and even that is conditional on human nature and a few unchanging principles. Within those boundaries… you have FREEdom, liberty… the opportunity and the ability to think and do for yourselves… to use your God-given talents to make your way in this world. The liberty to take from the fruits of your labor and help those less fortunate or less abled, but still working hard nonetheless. You have the freedom to succeed — to allow your children to surpass you in opportunity and wealth. You have the freedom to worship or not worship, to explore ideas for your entire life or to lock yourself in an ideological box early on. Those things are not free — you are free to do or not do them.
Freedom brings with it the freedom to fail. You are or should be, free to be a fool and lose your house. You are free to quit smoking, to quit eating out so much, to quit running up your credit cards, to quit going on 2-week vacations you can’t afford, to quit voting Democrat or Republican because you’ve always done so, to quit equating all violence with hatred or all religion with science-phobia. In fact, you are free to stop voting if you use your free time to do nothing — especially read and contemplate books. You are free to stop dressing your daughters as whores and to stop emasculating your sons. You’re free to tart up your daughter or pussify your son too, but the rest of us are free to not pay for your grandchild or your son’s AIDS cocktail on government health plans. You’re free to pay for your own damn embryo destroying “research”. You should be free to not have to pay for “research” that holds out little hope and results in the devaluing of human life. Devalue your own life — you are free to do so. You are free to stay wretched refuse if you choose. You are free to not recognize the boundaries on human freedom written on the heart, but that failure usually leads to forfeiture of the freedoms you do have so tread lightly
You are also free to choose life, liberty, and to pursue Happiness. As that most important of our foundational documents says, “I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity… I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants….”
Quit huddling in masses. Get up! You are free to live — NOT LIVE FOR FREE. It’s not enough to BE free you have to STAY free — yearn for it. “Free” has very little, if anything to do with monetary value. It has everything to do with inherent value.
You have rights — inalienable rights. I can’t take them away from you, but you are free to give them away — the ultimate freedom. Use your freedom wisely — once it’s given away getting it back is nigh impossible and is damn sure costly. Choose life — choose liberty.
Floyd Here: originally posted March 10, 2009
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Now here’s a post that only gets more relevant over time.
When liberals talk about issues like Universal Healthcare, they invariably twist the narrative and attempt to make it about compassion; i.e. they have compassion for people who have no health insurance, and conservatives don’t. This is expected because, as with most liberal ideas, it is coming from a place of emotion, not logic.
What they fail to grasp is that the real issue here isn’t compassion. All Americans have compassion for those less fortunate; that’s why this is the most charitable nation on Earth, thank you very much.
No, the real issue is freedom. The freedom to maintain ownership of our own property, including the money we earn. The freedom to choose what to do with our earnings, and to have some say over how our taxes are spent. If that freedom goes away, it will be just as tyrannical as the removal of our Freedom of Speech or any other freedom we hold dear, and the fact that it’s done in the name of liberal “compassion” won’t change that.
Perfectly said, JimmyC.
Very well stated! Freedom is a very lofty goal which is not for the faint of heart, nor the lazy. Freedon takes a lot of work, but is well worth the effort!
Freedom isn’t free it costs a buck oh five.