{"id":4688,"date":"2021-09-15T23:15:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T03:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2021-09-15T23:15:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T03:15:06","slug":"the-animating-contest-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/the-animating-contest-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The animating contest of freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peace at any price is no kind of bargain<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the 9\/11 terrorists were alive today to look at the changes they wrought in America with that one act, on that one day, how could they be anything but\u00a0delighted<\/em>? If the goal was just to kill Americans, they were successful. If the goal was to warp and distort the fabric of American life, they were successful beyond their wildest dreams. They succeeded in that because\u00a0we decided<\/em>\u00a0that safety was more important than anything else.<\/p>\n

If our founders had valued safety over freedom we\u2019d still be British. And I suspect an increasing number of academics, intellectual elites, and government bureaucrats wouldn\u2019t see the harm in that\u2014one country, they think, is very much like another. Life in Canada isn\u2019t so different from life here, etc., etc.<\/p>\n

And that brings us to the coronavirus. This disease is not, as some thoughtless people have claimed, our generation\u2019s \u201cWorld War II\u201d: For one thing, you can\u2019t have a war without fighting back. It is rather another 9\/11\u2014a\u00a0successful<\/em>\u00a0attack on the American way of life. The attack comes from China this time. But the results are similar:<\/p>\n

Joe Biden said on September 9, just two days before the 20th anniversary of September 11, that he would force everyone to get the vaccine, and seek to punish those who do not: \u201cThis is not about freedom or personal choice. It\u2019s about protecting yourself and those around you.\u201d That sentence, among the most disgusting ever spoken by an American president, is music to the ears of the Chinese Communist Party. It\u2019s music to the ears of the Taliban. It\u2019s music to the ears of every America-hating bastard everywhere, including those who were born and live here and who are teaching our children in school to hate America.<\/p>\n

A few months ago, you were a conspiracy theorist for suggesting that vaccine passports would even be\u00a0considered<\/em>. Today, you\u2019re a conspiracy theorist for suggesting there might be something wrong with the idea.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden\u2019s America is America in name only, just as he himself is president in name only. You see people driving around alone in their cars wearing masks on their faces\u2014so terrified of getting sick that they have become sickness itself. They wouldn\u2019t have been willing to fight World War II. They\u2019re peace-at-any-pricers: the people who would have been willing to accept a Nazified Europe in exchange for Hitler\u2019s agreement to let Britain continue existing. (There were plenty of those people in Britain at the time; thank God they were not in charge.)<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m not going to get the vaccine. I\u2019m not going to wear a mask, anywhere. If someone asks me whether I\u2019ve been vaccinated, I\u2019ll tell him the truth: That it\u2019s none of his business.<\/p>\n

If you prefer safety to freedom, that\u2019s your choice: It\u2019s a free country. You can even tell me \u201cscrew your freedom,\u201d as a once-popular actor recently said. But I reserve the right to make my own choices too, and I\u2019m for freedom. Freedom at any price. That is the essence of America.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Myself, I’m just happy to finally run across a column that acknowledges the plain fact that, just as American liberty could never have been secured without violence, it likewise cannot be maintained should any generation of the Founders’ posterity foreswear the use of violence in its defense. Calls for “freedom at any price” can only sound flat and flaccid when accompanied by such timorous, historically-illiterate backpedaling. Threats of “war” unsupported by any credible likelihood of follow-through harsher than rhetoric, lawsuits, and “voting” are no real threat at all, just empty bluster and bluff. And, as any poker player can tell you, bluffs will, sooner or later, get called<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peace at any price is no kind of bargain. If the 9\/11 terrorists were alive today to look at the changes they wrought in America with that one act, on that one day, how could they be anything but\u00a0delighted? If the goal was just to…<\/p>\n

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