I have been reading the blogs, the WSJ, etc., and I believe freedom, the ability to live your own life without unnecessary interference, is losing ground in a big way.
Freedom/liberty has already been severely beaten over the past 100 years, with most of the damage happening since the 60's. If freedom were a person she would be lying in the ICU with all sorts of tubes and stuff attached to her.
(Yeah, I know, two days from Christmas, but what the Hell.)
Where are we losing our freedom?
1. The Department of Justice - Eric Holder should be behind bars. Instead he is overseeing a DOJ that is beyond corrupt and criminal. The rule of law is now irrelevant. We have the rule of men - NOT a good thing. No freedom there.
2. Obama - Obama's hatred for the US Constitution, as well as anything remotely considered "American", is evident by every one of his actions. Nope, no freedom there.
3. Congress - Democrats are mostly to blame with their never-ending assault on individual freedom. They simply despise the thought of people living their own lives without government involvement. The Republicans are almost as bad, as shown by their actions when they had control of both houses of Congress. Taxes and spending go only one way - UP! No freedom coming from this place.
4. Voters - About 53% of voters were stupid enough to elect Obama in the first place. 'nuff said.
5. Moochers/Looters/Government Employees - These people feed of the government, which, in turn, feeds of the productive part of society. They will never vote to cut their benefits or income. This is the greatest danger to domestic freedom, in my opinion.
6. Islam - This is a worldwide problem, and we are not winning. As Winston Churchill said, "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
Absolutely no freedom in Islam. I am continuously amazed how the leftists make excuses for the degenerate cult of Islam. Freedom and Islam are totally and eternally incompatible.
That's enough for now. I could go on and on, but I am getting bored. You get the point, I hope.
Always keep fighting for freedom, but recognize that we are NOT winning at the moment.