Saturday, April 17, 2021

Freedom

 Freedom '90


All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me yea yea
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
You've gotta give for what you take

Being in favor of freedom does not mean that you are for Freedom Caucuses or Conferences.

Testing support for freedom by support for “freedom” caucuses is like asking “Are you still beating your wife”, leading, questions.  Posing the "wife beating" question that way and only allowing yes or no responses, implicitly assumes that at one time the respondent has beaten his wife.  A yes or no response provides no information if the respondent  NEVER beat his wife. 

Freedom Caucuses treat rights as absolutes when they are not.  Rights are protected, but they are never absolute.  You have the RIGHT to shout fire, but that right is not absolute.  You have the DUTY not to shout fire in a crowded theater.   You have the RIGHT to bear arms.  You have the DUTY not to use those arms in a mass shooting.  Confusing rights with duties is the opposite of freedom.

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