Kissing Freedom Goodbye

[redcliffsw]

Good read-

Are you ready to kiss your freedom goodbye?
-Thomas Sowell

"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections. If everything that is wrong with the world becomes a reason to turn more power over to some political savior, then freedom is going to erode away, while we are mindlessly repeating the catchwords of the hour, whether "change," "universal health care" or "social justice."

If we can be so easily stampeded by rhetoric that neither the public nor the Congress can be bothered to read, much less analyze, bills making massive changes in medical care, then do not be surprised when life-and-death decisions about you or your family are taken out of your hands – and out of the hands of your doctor – and transferred to bureaucrats in Washington.

Let's go back to square one. The universe was not made to our specifications. Nor were human beings. So there is nothing surprising in the fact that we are dissatisfied with many things at many times. The big question is whether we are prepared to follow any politician who claims to be able to "solve" our "problem."

If we are, then there will be a never-ending series of "solutions," each causing new problems calling for still more "solutions." That way lies a never-ending quest, costing ever increasing amounts of the taxpayers' money and – more important – ever greater losses of your freedom to live your own life as you see fit, rather than as presumptuous elites dictate.

Read the rest:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php?pageId=105912

[pamsback]

  Why doesn't anybody get that FREEDOM is what you TAKE nobody can GIVE it to you. If what you call freedom is what SOMEbody ALLOWS...what the hell is free about THAT?

  The founding fathers TOOK freedom....George didn't GIVE it to them. Then they turned around and decided what THEY would allow.

The only truly free people are the ones who die before they give in to somebody elses idea of how they should live and be.

  These people at WND make a good point every once in awhile but mostly they just like to hear themselves talk and want to impress THEIR idea of what freedom is on everybody else. So what makes them any different?

But this is just my mind workin and MY idea of what freedom truly is.......Get my point?


My point is ......this country needs more action and less talkin......just BE free...the rest will come.

[redcliffsw]

Where you going with all this - cause I'm not tracking?

[pamsback]

Nowhere really. I read these things you post from wnd, some have good points some don't.

Most of your posts have to do with losin our "freedom" and the founding fathers.
We started "losing our freedoms" when they sat down and started draftin the Constitution and deciding what they would and wouldn't "allow" in "their" country.

So guess THAT was my point......the founding fathers basically gave us the framework to go right back to where we started which was kissin the butt of big government whether we wanted to or not.

That and that every person has their OWN idea of what constitutes "freedom" and it usually costs somebody else some of theirs.