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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paret who wrote (35411)	7/4/2005 3:03:39 PM
From: AuBug	Respond to of 93284

The Fourth of July provides us with a good opportunity to compare what our ancestors believed was freedom and what Americans today celebrate as “freedom.” Consider Americans who were celebrating Independence Day on July 4, 1889. Their life had little or no: income tax, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public (i.e., government) schooling, Federal Reserve System, paper money, foreign wars, torture, war on drugs, war on terrorism, war on poverty, war on illiteracy, denial of due process, occupational licensure, economic regulation, militarism, military-industrial complex, gun control, and immigration controls. That is what it once meant to be an American. That is what it once meant free. That’s the freedom that our ancestors were celebrating on the Fourth of July. Isn’t that different from what an American celebrates as “freedom” on today’s Fourth of July? Having abandoned the philosophy of individual freedom, free markets, and republic in favor of socialism, interventionism, and empire, modern-day Americans have successfully been taught (primarily in their public schools) that their welfare-warfare state is “freedom” too. In fact, the tragic irony is that many of them honestly believe that all these federal programs are what “save” freedom and free enterprise. As the great German thinker Johann Goethe pointed out, none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. But the point also raises hope - because as Americans increasingly realize that they’ve been lied to once again, they might be even more willing to reject the false socialist, interventionist, and empire notion of “freedom” and restore the genuine American heritage of freedom of our forefathers - individual liberty, free markets, and republic. One final point that is oftentimes missed on the Fourth of July: The people who sided with their government and "supported the troops" during the war are not the ones who are being honored on the Fourth. Instead, the ones being honored are those who had the courage to oppose their own government because their government was engaged in wrongdoing. After all, don't forget that the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not Americans but instead were British citizens. Hornberger’s Commentary fff.org