Does America Still Stand For Freedom?

 

What does America, the United States of America, stand for? Is it freedom? Is it liberty? Is it basic human rights? Is it all of the above? Let’s take a look at these ideas of freedom, liberty, and the basic rights of mankind.

What is the definition of the word freedom? According to the Bing dictionary, freedom is defined as:

FREEDOM [ˈfrēdəm] NOUN 1. the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.

synonyms: right to · entitlement to · privilege · prerogative · due

2. absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.

synonyms: independence · self-government · self-determination · self-legislation · self rule · home rule · sovereignty · autonomy · autarky · democracy · self-sufficiency · individualism · separation · nonalignment · emancipation · enfranchisement · manumission

3. the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

synonyms: liberty · liberation · release · emancipation · deliverance · delivery · discharge · nonconfinement · extrication · amnesty · pardoning · manumission · disenthralment

4. the state of being physically unrestricted and able to move easily.

5. the state of not being subject to or affected by (a particular undesirable thing).

synonyms: exemption · immunity · dispensation · exception · exclusion · release · relief · reprieve · absolution · exoneration · impunity · letting off · a let-off · derogation

6. the power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity.

synonyms: scope · latitude · leeway · margin · flexibility · facility · space · breathing space · room · elbow room · license · leave · free rein · a free hand · leisure · carte blanche

7. unrestricted use of something.

archaic

familiarity or openness in speech or behavior.

synonyms: naturalness · openness · lack of reserve/inhibition · casualness · informality · lack of ceremony · spontaneity · ingenuousness · impudence · familiarity · overfamiliarity · presumption · forwardness · cheek

The definition of liberty is:

LIBERTY [ˈlibərdē] NOUN 1.the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

synonyms: independence · freedom · autonomy · sovereignty · self government · self rule · self determination · home rule · civil liberties · civil rights · human rights · autarky

2. the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

synonyms: free · on the loose · loose · set loose · at large · unconfined · roaming ·

(liberties)

a right or privilege, especially a statutory one.

"the Bill of Rights was intended to secure basic civil liberties"

synonyms: right · birthright · opportunity · facility · prerogative · entitlement · [more]

3. the power or scope to act as one pleases.

synonyms: freedom · independence · free rein · freeness · license · self-determination ·

Human rights, according to the free legal dictionary:

human rights: certain rights which are thought to be enjoyed by everyone, usually against - at least - their government. A modern concept, at least under this name, human rights are legally significant in the UK and Europe because of the incorporation into UK law by the Scotland Act 1998 and the Human Rights Act 1998 (effective October 2000) of the EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, ratified by the members of the COUNCIL OF EUROPE. Equally important is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. The convention includes the right to life; freedom from torture or inhuman treatment; freedom from slavery and forced labour; the right to liberty and freedom from detention save in accord with the law; the right to fair administration of justice; respect for privacy and the family; the right to peaceful assembly; the right not to be discriminated against. Over the years protocols have added new rights: the protection of property; a parent's right to choose education; a right to free elections; liberty from prison for inability to meet a contract; free movement; the right not to be expelled from one's natural home. Many of the rights are subject to provisos on the basis of public order, public security and the need to guard the freedom of others.

Did you notice something here? Freedom and liberty are contained in all these definitions. Freedom, liberty, human rights; these are so important to humanity, especially here in the United States. We cherish our freedoms almost to a fault. Without the Bill of Rights, which guarantees those inalienable rights are not taken from us, we could possibly be ruled by tyranny. The Founding Fathers included in the Constitution of the United States of America a list of those basic freedoms and rights so that they would never be infringed upon by our government.

What is happening today? What has been happening for decades? Our rights and freedoms have been being whittled away, a little at a time. Each one being infringed upon with regulation, taxes, permits, etc. Now, today, with the Democrat Party in total power of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House, there are bills being brought to the floor of Congress to infringe on our most basic freedoms even more; to the extent of removing those freedoms from our lives.

The Constitution is an amazing document to say the least. The Founding Fathers brought forth a great experiment where the country would be ruled by, for, and of the people. This had never been tried before in the history of mankind. There had always been a King, an Emperor, a Caesar, a Tsar, etc to rule over the people. Washington, Monroe, Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and the rest debated many months on how to set up a government that would not be tyrannical. They debated even longer because some didn’t want to include a Bill of Rights. What they came up with was the Constitution that gave the power of governance to the several states and the people, not a centralized federal government. In fact, the federal government’s powers are enumerated in the Constitution and any other power is retained by the States and the People in writing. The Federal government was meant to remain small and weak when it came to running the everyday business of the country.

Over the decades, centuries even, the States and the people have slowly abdicated that power to the federal government; or the federal government has just taken the power from where it belongs. Today, that center of government has become a bloated, overreaching, tyrannical dominion that represents only its own power instead of the people that elected those representatives. Our Congressmen sit in Washington, DC, far removed from the everyday lives and living of the country. They become extremely wealthy through bribes, payoffs, back room deals, etc. It’s hard to explain how an elected official with a yearly salary of less than $200,000 ends up with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars. All the while these elected officials sit there in the hallowed halls of Congress passing law after law after law that infringes on our rights and freedoms, taxes us into poverty, pays foreign nations and special interests, while none of these laws affect them in their ivory towers. They are exempt from many of the laws they pass.

The 2020 election proved that government has become much too powerful. With the obvious fraud and corruption that occurred in several of the states that elected a mentally unstable octogenarian as President and a woman of dubious character as Vice President with more votes than any other President in history, there should have been investigations and indictments. With thousands of sworn affidavits, video evidence, and eyewitnesses, it seems odd that even the Supreme Court wouldn’t hear a single case of the unconstitutionality of the election process in those states. This is further proof of a tyrannical government.

We, the People, have allowed this to happen. How? Slowly and surely by re-electing the same people into office for decades. The Congress decided that the President should only serve two terms because any more than that would make that office much too powerful. What they forget is that our representatives, if in office for decades, makes them much too powerful. Now, that power has gone to their heads and they believe they are above the people, more important than those that elected them, and above the law that they, themselves legislated.

The Federal Government is stealing away our rights, our freedoms, our liberties, and even our basic human rights right before our eyes. Mask mandates, social distancing, closing businesses, keeping people away from work, regulating everything from hunting and fishing to owning firearms, and opening our borders to all who want to come while the American taxpayer foots the bill. This IS the government the Founding Fathers fought against and warned us about. THIS is the government that the Constitution was supposed to protect us from. THIS is a tyrannical dominion that has enslaved the nation while freeing the world.

So, what does America stand for in today’s world? Right now, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty One, I’m not sure. I would like to believe that we still stand for freedom, liberty, and human rights of ALL people, including the citizens of the United States instead of everyone but the citizens. I hope I’m right.