A very important word in our political discourse is the word "free." We take for granted that our constitution guarantees us certain freedoms like religion, speech, press, etc., but a new meaning of "free" has been introduced and threatens to completely undo what our Constitution was originally drafted to secure.
If one carefully examines our constitution, the preamble and the subsequent bill of rights are all intended to secure freedoms for Americans to do certain things. For example, we are guaranteed the right to speak freely, to worship without government interference, to protect ourselves and our property with firearms, to have a free and unfettered press to demand government accountability, to be protected from illegal search of our persons or our property, to assemble whenever and wherever we choose.
The word "free," however, has been inserted to mean freedom from certain things: We are now told that our "freedoms" now include freedom from hunger, poverty, poor health, obesity, unwanted pregnancies, religious expression, poor education, air pollution, poor housing, and a whole host of other things.
There is a certain symmetry to the real freedoms and the counterfeit freedoms: In order to secure the "freedoms" from all of these things, constitutionally guaranteed freedoms to do things must be compromised. For example, If one is to be free from poverty without doing anything on his own to increase his personal income, then it follows that the money he receives must come from somone who has used his freedoms to create wealth of his own. It follows with all of these "freedoms."
The argument for all of these "freedoms" comes from the concept of "social justice" and "fairness." It is a fairly naked scheme to get voters to vote for the seizure of other peoples' property and "redistribute" it to them. Of course, the perpetrators of this counterfeit never intend to give the money to anyone but themselves and secure their own political power. To secure this end, our educational system has been perverted so that it produces illiterate people incapable of utilizing their own constitutional freedoms to create wealth for themselves.
We must remember, seekers, that our children must be taught to see the world filled with wonder and opportunity. The bleak darkness of ignorance cannot be dispelled by anyone but ourselves. If we continue to let the government feed this tainted idea of freedom to our children, they will wind up in poverty on the trash heap.
