I awoke this morning as I did on the morning 21 years ago to this date—on the couch after falling asleep watching television the night before.
9/11 started out as any other morning for me, then I spent most of the next couple days on the couch trying to process it.
Today, the 9/11 tragedy turns legal adult drinking age, but what has America learned in the past score and one years?
Ever since that fateful day, we’ve been conditioned to believe that certain types of foreigners hate us for our freedom.
Consider some of the freedoms that exist in a post-9/11 America.
- A freedom granting one the specific inability to travel or become gainfully employed if he cannot produce documents stating that he was injected with an experimental serum, the duty of which was to ward off a mild sickness that nearly everyone would inevitably catch, regardless of the injection.
- An abstract concept of freedom championed by a regime that concomitantly advocated the Supreme Commandment: One must bear close resemblance to a surgical doctor (or nurse) to be allowed entry into public spaces.
Odd notions of freedom, certainly.
Practicing baseball in the backyard the other day, my five-year-old son asked me what freedom is. He may have secretly been watching Braveheart in his free time for all I know. He gave the Gibsonesque “Freedom!” yell after asking me.
I was a bit puzzled. Everyone knows about freedom…
“He should know about freedom too,” I thought. “After all, isn’t freedom built into human nature or into us as Americans or something like that?”
I had to look it up. Merriam-Webster defined it multiple ways.
Freedom — The quality or state of being free: such as
- the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action
- the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous
- unrestricted use
- the quality of being frank, open or outspoken
Of course, Americans are free. Our enemies hate us because of that freedom. And aren’t Americans the freest people in the history of the globe?
Over in the lands of some of our purported enemies, women cover their faces and bodies entirely as a matter of everyday practice. Defenders of freedom rally against the subjection of these women. In some circles today, such advocacy may render such a righteous American an “Islamophobe.” It’s an unwinnable war, so it seems.
But is it not out of the concern for freedom and equality—and for women specifically—that we must freely show our own faces in public without fear or shaming?
Something changed with the conception of freedom.
We’re free. They are not. They hate us for our freedom.
Our government stands for that freedom. It protects us. From threats both foreign and domestic. Americans are a free people.
On February 28, 2020, Anthony Fauci published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine to allay the public’s fear of an upcoming global pandemic.
“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%.”
Two weeks later came “15 days to stop the curve,” which ended up lasting the better part of two years.
“This suggests that the overall clinical consequences,” of the deadly disease in question according to Fauci, “may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.”
Fauci pivoted in March.
The untimely maneuver proved thus: Now, an everyday American would soon bring dishonor upon himself—especially in the eyes of our governmental and societal betters in lockstep with the corporate media structure—if he refused to go along with the scientism pervading the country.
Look no further than Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers for one prominent example. Rodgers was pilloried by the corporate press for “lying” about his immunization status in the fall of 2021. Rodgers inevitably got his just desserts, claiming his second straight NFL Most Valuable Player award at season’s end, his fourth such award overall.
Yet throughout the season, Rodgers had to isolate himself from his team and other Packers personnel (other than on the practice or game field where, naturally, The Nineteen would magically disappear for several key hours at a time.)
There were no apologies from the corporate press when such scientism that had been foisted upon the global peoples ultimately proved, time and again, to be unreliable at best and, in most cases, wildly inaccurate.
Two-and-a-half years were robbed from the lives of Americans starting in March of 2020. We’re not entirely in the clear yet today, either.
Ironically, this plunder of human flourishing was by the hands of a “popular” government—of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Democracy in action. Freedom incarnate.
When “free and fair elections” are conducted, Americans get what they deserve. It is The American Way.
H.L. Mencken noted, “Democracy is the theory that common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
The results of our fair elections? Two presidents and their freedom-loving bureaucratic sycophants giddy to lock-down their countrymen. Also joining in this appreciation of freedom were a legion of cowardly governors, mayors, and local officials—with possible exceptions in the form of governorships in South Dakota and Florida and a few heroes in city and town governments scattered about the land who resisted the idiocy from on high, but who we are also never told about.
So, who exactly are the enemies?
