Freedom; what it
is, and what it is not.
Unadulterated freedom is an unattainable goal; that is what the founders
of America
knew and understood, which was their impetus behind the documents that
established our great nation. They also knew that one of the primary driving
forces in human nature is the unconscious desire to be truly free. This meant
to them that mankind if totally left completely unrestricted would pursue all
things in life without any awareness or acknowledgement of the consequences of
his/her own actions leaving only the individual conscience if they had one as a
control on behavior. This would not bode well in the development of a great
society. Yet the founders of America
chose to allow men/women as much liberty as could be, with minimum impact on
the freedom or liberties of others.
In this light the government at all levels has lost sight by the
introduction of laws that changes us from the freest nation on earth into a
nation of serfs. This raises the question about the purpose or value of laws
beyond those set forth in our founding.
A law does not make a person behave in any specific way; it only
represents a threat of reprisal and cannot stop a free person from taking the
liberty to violate it. The sum of more laws only means more punishments and
imprisonment to be carried-out by the government on the free people of our
nation. Our laws should be more like; “don’t sweat the small violations and all
violations are small”. Did or have you ever considered why the founders didn’t
create a civil or federal police force and left policing if necessary to we the
people. That as we as a nation grew we didn’t create law enforcement agencies
we created police agencies for the purpose of keeping the peace, not enforcing
the laws but to protect us from violence and crime and investigation, where law
enforcement was strictly the purview of the legal system and the courts.
Today our government has changed policing into surveillance of
everything we do, and call it law enforcement that’s what is called a “police
state” which no longer allows the liberty of being free people.
I view myself as a free person and if someone or group approaches me in an
aggressive manner and worse yet is armed I will perceive it as a threat and
will aggressively defend myself, and a uniform or badge is not a permission
slip for such behavior. GAP
P.S. America is a nation that desperately
needs to be reset and rebooted.
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