A Few Thoughts on Freedom

Copyright 2016 by R. A. Robbins

When you hear the word “freedom” what comes to mind?  I’m guessing if we could hear our answers they would be many and varied.  We would probably have answers that would cancel each other out or greatly interfere with the freedom of another.

We are having problems in this great experiment in Democracy called America in realizing that freedom is for all, not just a select few.  We’ve always had that problem, haven’t we?  It’s really nothing new.  Why did it take so long for anyone who was not a white, male, landowner to be able to vote?  Early “pilgrims” to this “New World” were fleeing religious persecution, only to become known for their persecution of others who did not believe as they.

Something we should be learning by now is that the greatest threat to individual liberty is FEAR.  That has been the…