Question:
What is truly freedom?
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2006-07-05 15:44:44 UTC
Is it not also the right to have a voice heard .To stand up for ones belief without having a one sided culture.But a voice can be made or paid to stop it from speaking ones views is that freedom.When one lashes out is that not freedom of choice.
So what is your meaning of freedom, i get so tired of ppl crying of a country built on freedom that took so much freedom away.Then it was the indians freedom ,then the blacks freedom, and now picking on the mexicans anyone not abiding by laws should be punished by law.
But just help me understand what is your true meaning of freedom?
Five answers:
vixen x
2006-07-06 02:49:49 UTC
First of all, the young lady who speaks about the Indians roaming and killing each other. Yes the Indians did continually roam. They did so with the seasons to find additional food sources they needed. They did not pollute the waters and use up all the resources. Just before being put on reservations the Indians were moving because the new settlers were paid by the government to kill as many buffalo as possible. They were trying to take their food source to control or wipe out the Indians. Does this not sound similar to what happened in Germany in WWII. And as far as them killing other tribes which meant they were killing each other. Do Americans today not do the same thing but for worse reasons. There are many murders everyday, yet this is almost accepted by the people today. Many Indians banded together or traded with each other. They did not just fight each other everytime they saw each other. This is a common perception.



To me Freedom means that we should be able to state our opinions and beliefs without retribution. This does not mean you can force your beliefs on others. This means we each have the right to believe what we choose and state those beliefs without fear. Whether you are against the government, for the government, believe in one religion vs another. This does not mean you are right, but that you have the right to state your views. Obviously we do not have complete freedom in this country. If you look throughout history you can find many examples of people in this country who have been persecuted for being for one type of religion or for speaking out against the government. No, I do not mean the people that try to shoot the president. Only the people who actually state their opinion and are punished for it. If you would like proof just look up John Trudell. He spoke out against what the government was doing at a rally and burnt an American flag. I personally would never burn a flag, but that is his right. His family was killed in a suspicious house fire 20 minutes later. It killed his pregnant wife, his mother in law, and 3 other children. Coincidence, i don't think so.
kickinupfunf
2006-07-05 16:12:15 UTC
I dont think that you really want an answer to your question, you have your adgenda and you have voiced it well. But addressing your points as you feel freedom is, then lets look at the Indians, (am part Native American) they were NOT free as you think, they roamed in tribes throughtout N. American, going from place to place, using up the grasslands, wildlife, and water streams to survive. When they ran into another tribe or party of people they destoryed them (fought them) to maintain the land for their peoples. It is true that the early settlers took and killed the Indians as they branched out throughout the western part of USA. But their freedoms where no more or no less than that of anyone in time of a strong peoples taking on the weaker. Ancient history gives millions of lessons on this.



As to the blacks, the freedom that they did not have when their own people sold them into slavery was null and void. Much like what is going in Africa even today, be killed or sold, or just die. However, when they came to America as slaves, slavery was on its way out, in the world and it was the white man that fought a war to actually set right a horrible set of events. Thank god they did.



As "picking on" the Mexicans. Hold your horses, no one is picking on the Mexicans. As a people they are, next to the Americans the hardest working people on earth. No one you would want better to work with or for than them as a whole. But you must be talking about the ILLEGAL Mexicans that are entring OUR country in groves. It does not matter what you might think, what they are doing is wrong and illegal and HAS NOTING TO DO WITH FREEDOM. STOP and look at FREEDOM as you think you know it and apply it to their own country. It is NOT a pretty picture.



Now freedom, means according to the consitution of the USA that we have the right and protection to pursue certain ordained rights: freedom of speech, own property and happiness. We do not have unbridle freedom for a society, culture or civilization can not exist without restraints. When we talk of freedom we mean we can go and come as we please as long as we are not breaking a law. We can still travel from Boston to SF without showing our papers as long as we are not doing something wrong, we can buy and sell our private property as we please, we can marry who we want and or divorce them, can raise our children as we see fit. We can worship our God as we feel inclined too or NOT. We can sit and do noting or be part of the whole.



Remember one thing, the freedom to pursue something is NOT a right to that something, it is only a right to get off our fannies and go for it. We have no freedom to do wrong to another, or break laws that are passed, if we do, we suffer the out come.
Big Dog03
2006-07-05 15:57:51 UTC
Freedom is personal and essential to peace of individual spirit. But, I suppose the first thing that comes to my mind is the ability to think and believe what I want, when I want and how I want without prejudice or retribution. However, I also feel that it's imperative that in doing so it does not infringe on another souls right to the same.
laa_dee_fukin_daa
2006-07-05 15:49:08 UTC
Freedom is life under a true Democracy. George Bush has just about rewritten our bill of rights and trampled our Constitution.
z z
2006-07-05 16:09:46 UTC
True freedom for US is the ability to express without judgement or cause and effect.


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