by Ray Newman, radio and television commentator, attorney, educator, author

Monday, July 1, 2013

FREEDUMB I

*  We are not free to represent our child or spouse or friend in a court matter, even though they want us to, if we don't happen to be lawyers
*  We are not free to purchase a medication in a foreign country that is not approved by the FDA and bring it back to our home in the US, even though we have a critical/terminal disease and will die without it
*  We are not free to open a shop anywhere in our country and sell alcohol, open a casino, drive a taxi, perform marriages, get a divorce, and a thousand other things without first meeting arbitrary government requirements
*  We are not free not to risk our lives and fight in a war even though we think the war is unjust, if the government insists we do so
*  We are not free not to help pay for our neighbor's college education if the government mandates we pay taxes to do so
*  We are not free to serve as President of this country even though 100% of the population wish us to, if we were not born 35 or more years ago here in the U.S.
*  We are not free not to have personal health insurance.
*  We are not free throughout this country to marry another person or adopt a child with another person who doesn't have different genitalia than we do
*  We are not free to burn a piece of material that has been made to look like the image of an American flag
*  We are not free to kill a cat and eat it even though we are starving to death, though we kill millions of other animals each day for the same purpose, or for pleasure
*  We are not free not to serve as a juror
*  We are not free to retain the home (and the property it sits on) which our family has lived in (and on) for generations if the government unilaterally decides it wants it
*  We are not free not to testify in a criminal case even though our lives and the lives of our family are in jeopardy if we do so
*  We are not free to choose our own name without government permission
*  We are not free not to put money aside  for our retirement...money we desperately need now
*  We are not free...

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