Freedom is not free. Now that it is in jeopardy here in the states we are getting re-educated. As for the Kent State affair, every action has a reaction, the freedom of speach is our right and we can choose to exercise it. However, there are consequences to our choices and sometime those consequences include death. If you choose to speak your mind against a monster, (which is what government is, regardless of size,) one should be prepared to be dinner.

Americans have become spineless, clueless, and feeble. I pray you can grow up in time to survive. Nature has no regard for the weak. If the meek are to re-inherent the Earth, they need to learn what it means to be strong. Lest we shall pathetically die like the cowards we are. At least those students an Kent State had the courage to stand up for what they believed in, even if they were clueless to the consequences of thier actions.

There is a law with in nature the human race needs to re-learn, "Every choice you make can be your last."

"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."  Kurt Vonnegut

I quite agree with the sentiment/fact that freedom is never free. I have it as a sticker on the back of my car in fact.
And while the students of Kent State learned far to late the consequences that they would suffer for their presumption of entitlement to speak freely,on a private property campus they none the less were entitled to speak. And they can not be blamed for believing the Constitution insured that freedom while also insuring they would be free from the bullets that sought to silence them forever.
Because that then is not freedom. Rather, it is a directive to set an example for all who watch, scream in shock and cradle the dead, that not only is speech not free but it is not permitted regarding certain subjects, without it costing the life/lives of the speaker(s). So then the gauntlet is thrown down, causing the citizen to choose. Dare one speak and die!? Or dare they suffer in silence and live enslaved?!
At 47 years of age, I dare say I've been fortunate to witness a great amount of history made in my lifetime. As a political activist for topics that interest me, I am heartbroken at how much of the patriot spirit has been eroded in the name of apathy, fear, self-preservation at the cost of self-deprecation and just plain old fashioned indifference.
I'm what some refer to as a people watcher. I enjoy entering into the public domain wherein a cable news broadcast is coming on-air, as folks take time out of their day to look toward the screen's and learn the latest.
I watch their faces, their body language, the color as it enters and leaves their faces. All signs of the emotions that churn within as they witness news of the day foretelling the politic that leads their collective future. Some people shift from foot to foot. Nervous, unsure, afraid.  


Others eat and run, literally. Clinging to that sound bite about this or that, while stuffing their faces with that what tomorrows news will say contributes to heart disease and diabetes. Some multi-task as they talk on their cell's or text on Blackberries giving their necks probably what is the only stretching exercise they experience the whole day. Alternating between looking up toward the TV screens and looking down to the keypad.


And then there's the eavesdropper in me that walks through my day, when I'm out and about for the errands I must run for my company. I listen to folks complain about the state of national affairs, while holding the mail they just retrieved from their Post Office boxes.  Or it's a coffee clutch that gathers at the local mini-markets here. Old timers hearkening back to the days of old, when they truly did feel socially secure and retirement was a distant future that spanned decades in front of them. Now they've found they've arrived and those golden years are paved with anything but gold.
How does one feel socially secure when they have to choose between staying warm in winter, after the local utility announced on the cusp of one of our hottest summers 3 seasons ago, that they were increasing rates by 60%,  or eating or affording that quality of life prescription, even with the Medicare card!?  


Had I been a rich woman, as I stood behind a petite little lady who was in her 70's if she was a day, a few years ago, I would have handed the WalMart Pharmacy clerk my black AM-ex card. It would have been my gift to that treasure of a senior citizen who had worked all her young life for the chance to rest at the end of it and enjoy the fruits of her labors and who now stood in front of me at that counter and tried to do the math in her head.

Could she afford but 1/3rd of her heart medication when the entire month's supply topped $700 and buy groceries!? A dialog she carried on with herself aloud, as the sad eyed clerk patiently waited for someone's grandma to choose.


Had I been rich, there would have been no other choice. Someone's Grandmother would have lived another month, even a year had I been blessed enough to prepay it all for her. And she would have had her own monies so as to eat, pay her mortgage or rent, heat and cool her home when it came time.

For those that have so much, is it too much to give?!

But I'm not rich and mores the pity. So I hid my tears with a subtle brush of one hand and flipped closed my cell phone after realizing I, who hadn't yet hit the cusp of 50, didn't have enough of an available balance in my savings account to even afford her the gift of a month's supply of that medicine that promised to keep her heart alive.  And then I got mad as I thought to myself if she'd only have been on welfare or a nonresident alien, it wouldn't have been an issue at all.
There's something wrong with that! To work your whole life and not afford to do anything else but die because the medicines to keep you strong are out of reach for lack of the monies to take them home.


So, when you say that freedom is never free I believe!

When you say one has to be willing to realize that to speak against the beast shall cost their lives, I respond and ask if you've noticed it's a small matter. Because even when we stay silent the beast feeds upon us. So voice to power or remain mute, we've permitted ourselves to elect our being to serve as an expendable replaceable sustenance for that what gives authority to big government. Our example that we need to be led by bigger and bigger chains about us.

And when you say we have grown feeble, I would disagree. For if a people are strong enough to suffer they are strong enough to fight. I learned long ago when I entered into the realm of political activism that the political is personal. But until each person knows that to be true in every way, they'll continue to plod on hoping to work harder, to give the government back the currency it prints, values and distributes among our national community so that we may then net the living that makes us a debtor society!

When you say we are clueless I would say that is true. But that is because we've been programmed not to think for ourselves, but to follow the herd in standard of equivalency in our public school systems. So that everyone is con~formed to being equal even when they are not. And so, when todays PS student is told grades won't be issued anymore so as to preclude a sense of competition that intimidates those less able to deduce the curriculum, are we surprised clueless is now considered a virtuous standard toward equality!?

When you claim we are spineless, I disagree. If we are strong enough to endure we are strong enough to change. We have to set aside the Partisan loyalties that make many of us like unto zealot's intent on creating one nation under one ideal. When history portends, it is never acceptable to all people to be forced to live one way! And our behaviors to date have led government to believe we need to be controlled by it more and more, because we simply can not be trusted to our own freedom. And why is that!? Because we've been led to believe we are feeble, spineless and clueless. And we believe!

And the standard within this Democratic Republic implies we voted for this! While nothing could be further from the truth.

They say the truth shall set you free!
I know this is a lie.
Because if the truth ever set the key into the shackle locks that enslave a people body mind and spirit,  we'd have been emancipated a long time ago.

My dear Freedoms Ghost,

I applaud your robust literary skills and point of view, and though on a few occassions I have railed into the ablivion of Cyber space only to hear a pin drop or the utter absence of sense, I will impart simpler wisdom without large numbers of words.

Freedom of speach is free only when the speaker has sufficient backbone to speak, and the courage to accept responsiblity for those words.

However, it was Benjamin Franklin, whose wisdom once pointed, "Knowing when to speak speaks loudest." (or in the least that is a good paraphrase to his words.) The second thing he said was, "We shall hang together in these stressful times, or we shall most definitiely hang separately."

Today, our politics and more importantly our political leaders seek to divide the American people along racial, political, class, religious lines in order to prevent the public from coming together in a unified front against their plans to destroy our lives for their greater good and not ours. In so doing, they ensure that ever smaller minorities command greater and greater roles of influence over the masses. This is achieved thorugh controlling the media.

The left have infultrated positions of power in the Media, Academia, and politics for the sole purpose of deceiving the public and stripping the American people of their rights to choose and manage their own lives. The liberal left has successfully begun to dictate how we live, how long we live, how much money we make, what we eat, how much we weigh, where we live, who we work for, and on.

However, they over looked one critical factor. We control our money. We decide if we pay our bills, if we pay our taxes, if we work. The efforts of the left will shut down this country to such a degree that hospitals will not exist, employment will be a dream, and US currency will purchase nothing but a wish that it could purchase something. The collapse comes and it will be hung on the liberals for all time. We need but only sit back and watch.

Your words resound with fear and you are correct to be afraid. Yet, let not fear be the shackles that hold you but the steal of your patience for when the time to recover begins, we will without the aide of the Government or some political puppet.