Anyone can lose their freedom when another demands something from them that they have no right to. The aggressor is at fault by not leaving the other person (country) alone.
I think there are several ways to looking at this word, freedom, when you consider the mind-set of selfishness, greed and power.
After I wrote my first thoughts on Freedom, I got to thinking about having to defend our freedom to maintain it. But primarily in what I was addressing is the fact that people who start wars, the aggressors, think they have to kill, defeat and defend against an imaginary enemy to gain freedom, when they haven't lost it to begin with.
Do we think we have to set up a wall first, before freedom is gained?
The aggressor by-passes sitting down and talking, setting aside these imagined differences to think through the details of these facts they think need fighting for; to find out how to resolve these differences and to be able to leave each other alone and live side by side in harmony.
I see this in the middle east, or in Russia's trumped up facts to back their aggression with lies because of their selfishness, protecting themselves to maintain their hunger for power; or for decades Protestants and Catholics couldn't see eye to eye in Europe...or any other religion or belief system one demands to have. If there is a personal one God, one belief, why do so many people have to selfishly fight over him because of their man made doctrines? Or why do people want to thrust their own beliefs on others?
If everyone minded their own business, we could all have and maintain freedom and peace. Live and let live!
The one major attribute of our President is that he listens and discusses and doesn't throw us to the wolves, at least intentionally. I know his hands can be tied because politics is a big game and a complicated dance, and now I just hope we can maintain our freedom from the GOP, the aggressor in our back yard! A belief system wanting to be thrust upon all people of the US.
Constantly being said is, Greed and Power is the enemy of freedom, and the love of money holds their hand! Now you are back to defending yourself from tyranny ...Is this what life is about, you are left with either being on the side of the aggressor or on the side of the defender? Is this the corner you are backed into when trying to maintain your Freedom?
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