Liberty is not Freedom

In my decades as a Correctional Officer I watched people denied Freedom strive to maintain some Liberty.

And for my whole life I have been Free, but denied Liberty.  Now my Freedom is under attack too. In fact we all lost our freedom in 1913 with the passage of the income tax and the establishment of the Federal Reserve. We became economic slaves, and this is the saddest realization I have experienced as an adult.

While we are not locked up like the felons I supervised. we are not free nor do we get to enjoy the full measure of Liberty. Most of the anger and hardship all humans endure comes from the fact that we accept systems that enslave us.

Unpopular Liberty

Often the social media will have a story, with many comments, where the majority is unhappy with an act that should be tolerated in a free society. We tolerate unpopular activities so that our own unpopular activities wont become illegal too.

The average person forgets that both well manicured lawns and completely neglected lawns have their advocates and their haters.

I am setting out to blog at least one of these incidents of Unpopular Liberty a week. Be prepared to have your ox gored, but remember, it is all in the cause of promoting the greatest good mankind has yet experienced, Liberty.