The Republic is ours!

Freedom isn’t free! Commonly we here this when we discuss the heavy costs incurred by our soldiers serving our country and their respective families. The cost of freedom however extends far beyond this in the grand scheme though.  Each and every one of us as citizens pays a cost for freedom.  We give up safety, we give up stability, we give up ease of life for freedom.  Over the course of this nations existence people have been trading freedom for things like security.  How really though does the currency transfer over.  Freedom is no different than money, we have a finite amount of it and at some point the bank of liberty will run dry.  Using freedom as currency is a major problem.  I don’t believe when our founding fathers discussed taxation without representation, that they were talking about money.  The reality is that back in 1776, money was not what it is today.  Many people got their day to day needs by using trade and barter methods.  I honestly believe that they were referring to freedom as the item being taxed.  With every regulation imposed on them they saw their freedom eroded.  They came to understand and enjoy life away from the home government, and began living as their own community.  The brave settlers of America found freedom on our shores, and did not wish to give that up.  This was the cause for their great war.  This is the main reason why they stress the importance of individual freedoms in all the founding documents.

With all that being said, how is it that we came to use freedom as currency?  With all power comes corruption.  It is just human nature.  We will never be able to eliminate the corruption of power hungry individuals, without the use of individuals who themselves could turn power hungry and corrupt. Those who seek more power can only gain it by infringing upon the freedom of those whom they wish to lord over.  Since the American public collectively do not stand up and fight the tyranny, we have used the only currency accepted by tyrants to get things. Freedom!  Unfortunately, generations past started using freedom as currency, and like a hood rat winning the lotto, they bought a bunch of useless shit that in the end does nothing to help anything outside of their head. A big problem with any currency is that it is subject to inflation.  According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index, America has an average inflation rate of 1.38% per year.  If we apply inflation to freedom as a currency, we see that it takes about 2600% more today to get the same things as back in 1776.  Considering the high cost of freedom, why are we so willing to just trade it away for less than pennies on the dollar.

We have given up so much that as a nation today we would be completely unrecognizable by our founding fathers.  The amount of soldiers who have died to ensure our freedoms are not removed is ridiculous when you actually realize we are just turning them over for next to nothing.  1,500,000 plus soldiers have given their lives since the inception of our nation while serving.  625,000 of which died right here on American soil during the civil war.  Whether anyone likes it or not both sides of our first civil war were fighting for freedom, but I digress.  At the end of the day, the sacrifice made by American soldiers and their families should not be traded away as currency.  It was famously said by Ben Franklin, that “those who would give up essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither and would lose both”.  Even if you take into account the fact that this statement was made in 1755 in reference to taxing lands that were not taxable under the laws at the time to gain frontier security, the words are still powerful.  He was not willing to tax the Penn Family for the land now known as Pennsylvania to offer security that would not benefit them in any way.  Essentially he refused to infringe on the freedom of one to protect another.  Benjamin Franklin is arguably the most influential of the founding fathers, and he knew without a doubt before the inception of America that freedom should not be used as currency.

We need to stop giving up things we did not earn, so others can sleep better at night.  There is no reason for us to continue feeding the animal who sits back and gets fat off the meat of our children.  We need to take back our freedoms.  We need to stand up as a society, united and strong, and say enough is enough.  No longer will we trade the blood of our kin for the false promises and lack of follow through they call security.  We need to put every legislator, senator, representative, governor, mayor, justice, and president on notice.  Today we take back the lands those who came before us have given away one piece at a time.  Today we fight to not only maintain what freedom we have left, but we fight to restore those freedoms lost by those who came before.  Ours sons and our daughters will not know freedom any other way.  We do not fight for ourselves, we fight for those who paid into the bank of liberty before us, as well as those who will pay in the future.  We fight so our children can say with pride that they are American.  We fight so that our nation returns to that which our founding fathers intended for our nation.  United we Stand today to put America back on track.  Today, the power of the Republic returns to We the People!