Why It Matters

I thought id do something different today. I thought instead of writing up blurbs from news sources or referencing research articles that I would take a moment to discuss the reasoning behind the work I am doing. My work here is to better understand how America and our culture began as a constitutional republic and is now in a direct collision course with a scene out of 1984.

I like many, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, and the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as anyone. But where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

While there are still remnants of this once great test in freedom, it has morphed into something our founding fathers would be appalled at. I could sit here and describe or prove the ever evolving police state, the dissident oppressing surveillance grid, or the illegal wars of aggression that are being fought in our name, and there are those who would listen to this with an open mind and an empty cup, and there are others who no matter how much proof there is still would continue to turn a blind eye. For ignorance is certainly bliss. And after all why should I be the one to speak up?

This brings me to my original title "Why it all matters?" To understand the why we must understand the "what" and the what is 'freedom'. Not for my freedom, not your freedom but our children's freedom, and our children's children freedom. The what describes the why. Not freedom we read about, or preach to, or think we have. But tangible freedom. Tangible is not just a concept, idea or a theory that American's can rally behind its a reality with on the ground practical implementations. The REAL Freedom to speak, The REAL freedom to act, and the REAL freedom to think.

There comes a time when all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. A time when silence is betrayal. My belief says that the hour has come that people first by knowing, and then by individual research will come to realize that the course we are on as a nation and as a people is one of absolute despotism. To me the forwarded words carry a profound meaning. As they should for most of us:

"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. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

These words no matter how old or dated they may be. Are as applicable today as ever. And from these words we have an understanding that rights are not granted by governments, not implemented by political parties, and are not vanquished upon leaving any specific country. And yet still we have created torture apparatuses outside of the United States, denied terror suspects basic human rights, and turned our surveillance infrastructure inwards on the American people under the guise that we are to be made more secure.

"Any man who would give any essential liberty for security deserves neither" -- Ben Franklin

It is to these ends that we have created the very beast that the founding fathers fought bled and died to defeat. And from the ashes of a once fragile test in democracy we have built a country that wages illegal wars, profits from the suffering of others and has bled its own citizens into absolute poverty.

And so from these words comes my own call to action. My own reasons to do what I can. For it is in my name and my children’s names that atrocities are being committed. And while honor means little today of what it meant in 1776 it should mean more than it does.

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Welcome to ATS. I hope to see you on the forums. Looks like you can put a thread together well.

Wonderful first post! Hello and welcome!

Hello,

Thank you for the feedback. I wrote this today after someone asked me "why do you care? what do you think you can possibly change" and it got me thinking..