David J Sims Blog

In America we are very familiar with the terms “Freedom” and “Liberty” or “Free Society” but do we really understand what these words represent or actually mean? To me, freedom or liberty is really a very simple concept…. It begins with the “individual” and the “individual” should always be the ultimate goal and focus of all law, government and policy regarding society. When the “individual’s” liberties are violated by law, government, or society, then there really is “no” liberty at all.

Liberty concerning the individual is simply the right to do what ever you choose as long as it doesn’t harm or violate another’s individual rights, these rights are natural rights that we are born with such as the right to life ,the right to privacy, the right to own property or simply the right to be left alone.

Since the foundation of our country our rights and freedoms have been under attack and more and more we see our freedom depreciate under the hand of big government policies and subsidies. We in America are no longer a “free society” at all but more and more we are moving into the form of a “police state” where we have to have government permissions (permits) for everything we do. As a matter of fact many countries that we consider “Socialist” societies enjoy much greater freedoms than American’s do.

This little video expounds on that idea and explains this philosophy very well.