dave wrote:
Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:


Good and great people _do_ want and need freedom -- freedom from
stifling rules and drains on their energy, freedom from being dragged
down by the stupidity and open hands and mouths of those they want
nothing to do with, freedom to make communities with those they choose
to associate with (and no others), freedom to think and write and speak,
freedom to be themselves without pretense.


Freedom from need works for me. Everything else is relative.


"Freedom from need"? That's the promise always made by tyrants. You
obey; they'll supply your "needs" by stealing from others and giving
a small cut of the take to you. Their promises are a lot like the
promises made by con men.

I believe, if I remember correctly, that "freedom from want" was one
of the Great War Criminal's "Four Freedoms."

Those "Four Freedoms" were widely referred to in Washington at the
time as "the rake-off, the pay-off, the shakedown, and the fix."


Pip pip,


Kevin Alfred Strom.
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