I love this asinine platitude. “Freedom isn’t Free”.

I’m not going to relate my feelings about people who make this statement since it would be nothing more than a massive ad hominem attack. So, instead, I will explain, briefly, why freedom is indeed free.

The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence starts out a little something like this:

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness — That to secure
these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers
from the Consent of the Governed…

It’s as simple as that. Freedom, my friends, is in the ether. It’s there for the taking. The only cost, according to our fore-fathers, is setting up a government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed.

I don’t think anyone alive can argue convincingly that our involvement in any war ,save the Revolutionary War, did anything to advance the blessings of liberty and freedom in this country. But, if you’d like to try, you’re welcome to give it a shot.

And oh yeah, are you Proud to be an American? I am, but reading stories like this give me pause.

Yours in Liberty,