Freedom - Don't take it for granted.

If you happen to be living in the Modern Free World, you're allowed to read this article, and those like it, with out censorship and with a simple online search or click of a mouse button. This alone should get your attention, and I feel, should get your attention well.
Right now, in 2010 as I am writing this, China is still blocking Bogs of many sources (often by their common domain name). Iran filters everything (just like China) and they are looking those very important keywords that would lead them to the 'perpetrators' of any conspiracy that could potentially undermine the current regime.
In the USA, internet searches, public gatherings, Town Hall Meetings on various civil issues and over all civil freedoms are practiced constantly, all the time with out the severe Government intervention that we see so prevalent in other countries.
How these freedoms came to be.
We, in the Modern Free World: USA, Canada, parts of Europe, Japan, South Korea, and other pockets of Countries throughout the world can potentially take these freedoms for granted. Freedom of speech, right to own (property or otherwise), right to assembly and so forth. But how these freedoms came to be?
The issues of how our free world came about, and continues to remain free does center around constant vigilance in dealing with oppression, oppressive leaders throughout history, and many can be cited: Idi Amin of recent times, Hitler is Obvious, Stalin may have had his following but through systematic elimination of those who wouldn't follow and rather brutally.
There are many obvious examples.
Through proper governmental, political and military intelligence coupled with a series of carefully planned actions across the globe, by those that do care about freedom, the patriots, have stemmed the tide of what could otherwise be a different world. A simply example would be if the Nazi Party had won more that just 'the hearts and minds' of the German population at the time. If they had won World War II it would be a different place today.
The point I want to get across is not a justification for any of the military actions that have or are taken place, but the fact that patriots cared, they had their freedoms, they saw a need, they took action, and they paid a price.
In America, this starts over 200 years ago with the dream of freedom, through the Civil War over the freedom of the Black Slaves (which still is a serious issue of rights, so much that laws regarding civil rights and freedoms are still being refined)
So the point I am trying to make is those of us that really do enjoy the freedoms today, that we really take for granted, like going home at night and turning on cable TV, need to be in humble respect for the price paid, the blood shed, the argument made? "I say, give me Liberty or give me death!" And lastly, as well, have great thanks for.

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