Ruminations on Freedom

I'm discouraged. I don't get it.I don't understand why more Americans aren't as upset and raging in the streets about the assaults that have and are being perpetrated upon our freedom and rights as citizens and human beings. Maybe because my heritage includes the ones on whom genocide was practiced and land was taken in the formation of this country as well as the ones who were enslaved and brought here.

Maybe it's because I have experienced being treated as less-than-human, fairly regularly first for being a child, then for not being white, and being female. Didn't like it worth a crap. Who is any one to tell me what my “place in society” is?! It especially rankles when the standards to which I am/was held were not uniformly enforced, shall we say

Perhaps that's why I'm so touchy. Or maybe because I bothered to read the the letters and study the history of how we got such an awesome Bill of Rights and Constitution. I understand and absolutely appreciate how throughly amazing that a country would dare to establish itself with such lofty but bloody obvious precepts. And the struggles and necessity make modifications as were needed to continue the goal of fulfilling those promises.

Yet today, as we are ostensibly being challenged by fiat to justify existence and then aoplogise for being, I cannot keep quiet. Demanding ever more proof of citiznship, submitting to be poked, prodded, groped, fondled, inspected. Agreeing to have the contents of one's person sampled to see if your chemistry is appropriate. Being assessed for employment based on our alleged (or not)intergrity, ability to maintain timely credit payment in the face of fewer means to do so, without ability or recourse to demand the same of potential employers. Worse yet, there are those who are desirous that we accept the abuse, without complaint, and support the destruction of our selves for their benefit.

That may occur in other countries, but this one was formed on the principle that we are all entitled to the persuit of happiness. Furthermore, we affirmed that the role of government is to provide for that opportunity. And realistically, any government that does not, has little chance for sustained existence. no reason and even less motivation and inclination for the residents in such an area, to abide by such.

Therefore it's easy to see howand why anger and disstisfaction occurs, but ennui? Rolling over and playing dead, accepting the abuse is unnatural. It's self-destructive.Allowing somone other than yourself to inflict ham and injury, in the hope that it will stop, is both irrational and idiotic. I shudder to think how much force (Pain? Poverty? Sickness?)) it will take before their entropy/ennui is overcome. Looking at it in physical terms,when will the equal and opposite finally occur here?

I am truly flabberghasted by my fellow Americans who watch the events in Northern Africa and fail to apprehend the parallels within our own states and borders. There is no “app” for freedom, folks. There is nothing that can be downloaded, defrosted, sprayed on or rented that will allow you to be free without actively being responsible for your ownright to freedom, for your persuit of happiness. It's not an entitlement. But it can be achieved by standing up for your self, by speaking out when the attempt is made to strip you of your rights, by voting. Don't allow that most precious of all our rights be taken from you.