Freedom just is – having to ask permission means it doesn’t exist
(H/T: Skip, September 12, 2014)
We are closing in on 47,000 published posts at GraniteGrok; we’ve covered a lot of issues, concerns, questions, and trouble. A lot of times, by several of us, and often, the same thing comes back up in different guises.
Thus, we can, if we want, be self-referential – having already covered something to which we’ve generally given solutions as well.
A soon-to-be-Free Stater emailed me from the State of Rhode Island, which INSTANTLY reminded me of another RI transplant but from the Socialist/Progressive end of the political spectrum, former NH State Rep Cynthia Chase and her infamous anti-freedom outburst when she heard about the Free State Project:
What we can do is make the environment here so unwelcoming that some will choose not to come, and some may actually leave. One way is to pass measures that will restrict freedoms that they think they will find here.”
Steve was the first Grokster to start in on that unAmerican attitude here. Like I said, self-referential on a whole bunch of things.
We’re a good research site on things “Political NH.” In finding that, I ran into the above. Unfortunately, we on the Right don’t talk about that message enough. The Progressive/Socialists are ALL about saying, “You don’t NEED <insert whatever here> as if we should be ashamed of whatever <insert whatever here> happens to be. Like Bernie with his “millionaires and billionaires” and “23 different kinds of deodorants”, Obama saying “you don’t need to have your homes at 72 degrees”, and almost ALL of the Democrats saying “you don’t need an AR-15”. There are WAY too many examples to list here – and none of them should exist in the first place if one truly believes that Freedom is derived from God. Problem is, we know who the godless are amongst us.
And they expect to get away with it. They will unless we continuously punch back at them. As I wrote here:
What we seem to have forgotten is that Freedom just “is”. It does not have to be explained. It does not have to be justified. It does not have to be litigated. It does not have to be legislated.
It merely has to be lived.
Once permission is asked, you have given your freedom away – forever now being in the control of another. Sure, we do give up some amount of Liberty to exist in an ordered society. The problem is that there are those, instead of assuming Freedom is innate, believe it IS something that they can ignore – they do not respect YOUR Freedom. Often, we call these folks “Legislators” and some are quite open about their disdain for it.
Freedom – as President Reagan once famously said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Even with that, I don’t hear that “Freedom just is…it doesn’t have to be justified”. Lived, yes, but we have to defend it. Imagine that, in the country that labels itself the “Land of the Free,” we have to defend it? We must, as the Progressives/Socialists, along with some Republicans, are turning our Society from being freedom-oriented to one in which we have to constantly ask permission.
Tell you what, let’s get Legislators elected this November that will understand that transforming us into a permission-based society IS the tyranny that our Founding Fathers were scared of. Yes, laws are needed, but hundreds of thousands are now on the books?
Too many times, Legislators and regulation-making bureaucrats assume that only Government should set “the rules of the road” for the rest of us – instead of us setting them for ourselves.
