Posted on 08/05/2022 4:32:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Patrick Henry understood the dichotomy our forefathers faced.
Patrick Henry understood the dichotomy our forefathers faced. And now we face the same options. We all see liberty slipping away -- no, being yanked out of our hands by forces so evil we can barely wrap our Pollyanna brains around it. Here? This can be happening here? We warn about losing our freedom. We give examples -- COVID mandates, travel restrictions, educational issues, etc. ad nauseam -- but Biden supporters still exist. RINO Republicans still exist. The swamp is still full of monsters. The situation has made me realize that too few people seem to understand what freedom and liberty really mean.
Freedom is not some vague red-white-and-blue theme song. It’s not drums beating and marching bands. It’s not just a feel-good flag to wave. It’s something that generations fought, bled, and died for, so shouldn’t it have some solidity to it? Shouldn’t it be something palpable, heavy, and real -- something you can grab hold of? Lofty ideas are necessary, but, like helium balloons, they have to be tied to something solid or they just float away.
Freedom, where it exists, produces remarkable results. Freedom allows us to be good, to be our best. Harrison Bergeron, in the Kurt Vonnegut short story of the same name, says toward the end, “Watch me become what I can become.” Because he was so superior -- in mind, body, determination, and courage -- he had been made to endure terrible handicaps to keep those around him from feeling inferior (even though they were). He makes that declaration as he defiantly rips off the bags of lead weights and removes the mask that made him ugly.
Freedom allows us to -- like Harrison -- become what we can become.
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Huzzah!
Give us liberty or give us free stuff and promises of security
Bkmk
Give us liberty or give us “more chains.” We are living in a period of time where our countrymen and women don’t give a rats ass about the nation. Sooner or later we’re gonna tip over and we’ll never be able to get up again.
I think it's worse than that. The media and the schools are teaching people to actually hate the nation.
Admitting one's mistakes is usually healthy, but self-loathing leads only to self-destruction.
Say, according to that DoJ guidance that Project Veritas published, isn’t quoting Patrick Henry domestic terrorism?
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