Weaponized Freedom! Makes me want to shoot a Redcoat.
Posted on 05/14/2020 3:05:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
What is the difference between liberty and freedom in the eyes of many Americans?
Absolutely nothing.
And therein lies not only the problem driving the culture war around coronavirus shelter-in-place orders but also arguably the crux of all fronts of America's culture wars, from guns to religion to speech to - now, it seems - haircuts.
It is a slippage skillfully leveraged by conservatives.
This week in Michigan, armed protesters are heeding the call. But the petulant rallying cries echo across the United States.
"Give me liberty or give me death!" - so goes the universal whine, lifted from Patrick Henry's Virginia Convention speech in 1775.
My fellow Americans, liberty does not mean what you think it means.
Liberty is a type of freedom defined and limited by civil society. It is not an unrestrained, unchecked license to do whatever one desires. Rather, liberty is a right constituted by the society - or, here, nation - one lives in.
Data show that people of color are suffering higher rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality than white people. Data also show that pandemic protesters are largely right-wing white people. It does not take a genius to comprehend how the language of freedom and liberty has been weaponized against black and brown communities in America.
But language matters. Instead of indiscriminately crying "freedom!" or "liberty!" to defend one's assumed right to offend or harm, what might happen if we were to understand liberty as a freedom existing and expressed alongside the freedom of all Americans? Liberty as a type of freedom that holds us accountable for the welfare of the nation and all its people? Might we, then, form a more perfect union?
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You’re right but I disagree with the crux of your post: NBC needs to keep up the racist banging of the drum for the more people tire of hearing it, the better our prospects in November.
Wow, no agenda from her is there?
English teachers from a long time ago not todays.
Shut up, moron. I know what liberty means and you’re not my fellow American.
“Weaponizing Freedom” I really like the term. Isn’t that what America has stood for since 1775? I have a feeling the blue state governors will soon see their huddled masses, yearning to free, become infected with WF.
Liberty is a condition that one lives. Living in liberty allows us to fully enjoy our God given rights. Those rights we call freedoms. They DO NOT come from government. They DO NOT come from society. They come from God.
As men, we have tasked government to protect those God given rights. We the people gave government certain powers that enable government to protect our God given rights. Those powers are on loan from the people.
Among the powers is the ability to deprive a guilty man his liberties. This is done through laws and process that must adhere to the constitutional.
This entire government forced shutdown deprives the innocent of their liberties with no due process.
I will not go into a civic lesson on due process. I think the point is made that Marcie Bianco doesn't know jack schiff about freedom and liberty and where they come from.
As far as the Left is concerned, freedom has always been a weapon. We, however, take it very literally... III%
Weaponized Freedom! Makes me want to shoot a Redcoat.
Shouldn’t she go catch Corona for the cause?
I don't care who your are, that there's funny!
Also the author of:
“THE LEFT IS INSANE… NBC NEWS Report: Heterosexuality Is Just Not Working”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3773906/posts
“The patriarchal race to colonize Mars is just another example of male entitlement”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3634037/posts
“Weaponizing freedom”???
About damn time!
And to characterize Patrick Henry's passion as a "universal whine" is to instead show clearly to those who stumble onto her opinion Bianco's breathtaking level of ignorance about and her vile ingratitude toward our Republic and to American citizens.
Every time I hear leftist prattle like that I'm reminded of Robert Downey Jr.'s character in Back to School: “Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.”
I was wondering if she then accepts liberty defined by a slave society to mean that freedom is where you are free to go and pick cotton for your masters.
She mentions the Declaration but fails to mention that it specifically states that Liberty (along with life and the pursuit of happiness) is endowed by the CREATOR. Not Society!
Liberty is a type of freedom defined and limited by civil society. It is not an unrestrained, unchecked license to do whatever one desires. Rather, liberty is a right constituted by the society - or, here, nation - one lives in.
Yeah that’s exactly what I latched onto. She got it not just wrong but ... specifically, explicitly... 180 degrees exact-opposite ... and in direct, violent contradiction to what the founders explicitly wrote and was their MOST IMPORTANT POINT ... it’s THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE USA. It’s the single defining characteristic!
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