What is Freedom?

I’ve listened to and read an enormous amount of news and blogs by those that want the same thing as I do. They want peace. They want much smaller and less intrusive governments. They want their concerns heard. In short, they want a voice.

I listen. I read. I post. I pray. And then I wake up to the Reality that Is.

If I told you that I know what the problem really is. If I told you that I know how to solve that problem. Would you believe me?

I will attempt, in this short space, to examine, analyze and report on our major problem.

Our first problem is that regardless of what ideas I have seen, read or heard, they all neglect to see the ‘real’ problem.

It is not the issue that is burning a hole in your brain. It is not a single issue that will make the world a better and safer place to live in.

It is the ideology that we choose to internalize. An ideology can determine our futures. Got one?

The first thing that I notice when I examine the ‘world as one’, is that there is not a ‘world as one’. It is divided by big governments, who separate themselves from those that either bring fear to them, or that oppose their ideas. And as my mother said “Like people find like kinds”. They group together and express their hatred/dislike for the others. Big governments build big armies, navies and great stocks of weapons and weapons delivery systems.

We just left the bloodiest century in recorded history. Want more? It certainly seems that we are continuing to move in the same direction. More on that idea in another posting.

Our economies are falling apart as we all ignore the fact that Economics is the Science of Scarcity. We can’t continue to spend more than we make.

More on that on another posting.

One thing is for certain. If we continue to think as we always have, we will continue to get what we always have. And so history repeats itself. The biggest problem with that is that with each repitition the wars get bigger and badder, the economies get worse and worse and the living conditions, whether we measure it by Greenpeace or by scientific or economic standards keep showing its ugly head, and as time goes by, it gets worse and worse.

So Ideology is the core of our problems. So how do we go about making a significant change that will prevent us from repeating the same mistakes?

Let’s try examining what the ‘root of the problem’ is. Some people say that it is money, greed and the support of it by governments. Sounds right to me. But how can we change that?

I am not such an easy guy to please with platitudes. While the above response provides a plausible answer, it does not provide an answer.

Here, in short, is my answer. It is not ‘Money” that is the root of all evil. It is ‘Force’. Our governments support the use of force by endorsing its use in their armies, and their police forces, and in their legislation which is backed up by fines, punishments and aggression.

Remember the draft? It may not be here now, but how can you guarantee that it will not return? How strong is our support of the very Constitution that protects us? Is our economy in turmoil because our businesses and our CEO’s are stupid or too greedy? Perhaps we can all agree that government plays a major role in its hardships.

Ready for the final answer?

Force is the root of all evil. It cannot be money, as money is a commodity that is nuetral and can be ‘used’ for good or evil. Therefore, it is force that is the root of all evil.

Make using force as the only crime in this world and you will stamp out crime, the growth of evil big governments, and return of self respect to mankind. Let us provide the human being with the means by which the Right to Life will be restored. Freedom therefore, is respect for the life upon this earth. It requires the return to Natural Law, or that which is natural to mankind.

You must back up our Right to Life with laws that support our Right to Life.

Not an elastic, changing thing that our Politicians have made of our guarantte to our Right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness provided by our Constitution. But a true guarantee of our Right to Life, earned by our fathers and forefathers through their blood, sweat and tears.