Liberty lost: The Path
Many Americans and organizations fight for so called "inconsequential" minor points of liberty because collectively, over time, small incremental losses of liberty equal a precipice of fallen and lost freedom.
Hitler did not set out a single dictum to enslave the German people into a mindless mob mentality. That would never have worked. He did it incrementally, bit by bit, requiring the people to rationalize that yes, this is not so good, but, it is only temporary or, just a small infringement for a greater cause.
Freedom lovers take that lesson of history in with every breath throughout their lives. Liberty is more easily lost in inconsequential baby steps, than by a massive revocation of freedoms. The former has the consent of those losing their freedoms, the latter has to fight intense resistance. Beware those asking for small sacrifices of liberty! A little here, a little there, enslaves us all eventually.
All Americans should be asking themselves: How many small sacrifices of liberty and freedom in our war against terror can we accept? When is one more too much? When is one more too late? When does one more send us vaulting down a slippery slope we can never climb up again?
I urge you all, my friends and family, to register and vote this November. Vote for liberty in whichever candidate you believe promises most to protect it. The stakes could not be higher, nor the cause more important to America's future.
