"Now imagine a place as far from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan as possible. It's 2009 and the ice cream man is jingling through Brooklyn's Prospect Park."(Ward 660). Though the excerpt I included from the text goes on to tell the story of single mother, if we were to just stop there. At the end of THAT sentence we would have a very hard time distinguishing our society from that of the "Taliban -controlled" Afghanistan. People like the american tea party, the so called "grass roots movement" of our modern society, are the reason for us losing so many of our liberties and the ability and POSSIBILITY of Democrats and Republicans working together to make our society a better place to live.
These articles really didn't show me anything new, they more less reaffirmed my current beliefs about our corrupt political system and failing government. These articles talk about our negative and positive liberties and yet they fail to take into consideration that we have almost no liberties anymore. The government regulates everything in our society anymore. Organizations like the FCC limit our rights of press and free speech on TV and nobody even remotely opposes that. What they fail to realize is that by starting limitations like that, they cause a chain reaction of limitations. There are new things brought in for limitation and, possibly, prohibition because they feel they suddenly have the power to limit anything they want to.
Our rights are vanishing before our eyes. Yet, we don't seem to realize just how many freedoms have been outlawed or limited to the point where they might as well be outlawed. It is sad to say that our society founded on liberty and freedom has become a society that is coming closer and closer to having limitations reminiscent of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. Our rights are disappearing before our eyes and unless we stand up to the government and fight for our rights it stands to reason that we could wind up as a society of mindless drones doing what we're told to, when we're told to do it, and HOW we're told to do it. All I can say it, God help us when that day comes.
Monday, November 18, 2013
The Lies of Liberty
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Hunter,
ReplyDeleteThis blog makes you sound like you want to revolt against the government, especially in the last paragraph. I think this article is very much your voice. I have to agree though that the government is taking away our freedoms. It's is pretty pathetic that in schools today they are teaching the children that we are in a free country and once they hit high school history classes, they will start to realize that they have been lied to for the longest time.
Then again, I feel like we still do have some of our liberties or freedoms. We still have all of our rights, they are just limited. So that is one thing that I disagree with you on.
Thanks for sharing!
I thought this post was very intriguing. When I was growing up, I always thought of America as the place to be and that it was the place where good things happened. In my sophomore year in high school though, everything changed. I took a history class of the modern world and my teacher, despite others not agreeing with him, taught us from the view of other countries, not just the American viewpoint. What I saw were lies. Lies about what we went to war for, why the American people were restricted from doing certain things, and why we restricted others from doing things that differed from the good American ways. In that class and the three classes I took after that, I learned that this country is not freedom and, like you said, we are slowly inching toward a society like that of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. It will be only a matter of time before it all collapses.
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