Kalash
01-24-2008, 05:03 AM
The first step of freeing yourself from slavery is recognizing that you are, indeed, a slave. (http://www.gopetition.com/online/16529.html)
When your rights are stripped from you, then licensed back to you as mere privileges - granted at the whim of another - you are no longer free.
When you lost the right to possess that which you owned without the proper license, you were robbed.
When you lost the right to travel without a license, you became imprisoned.
When you lost the right to gather the profits from your labors directly - without paying a duty upon them, you became a slave.
What good is freedom in name when it is never found in practice?
When your rights are stripped from you, then licensed back to you as mere privileges - granted at the whim of another - you are no longer free.
When you lost the right to possess that which you owned without the proper license, you were robbed.
When you lost the right to travel without a license, you became imprisoned.
When you lost the right to gather the profits from your labors directly - without paying a duty upon them, you became a slave.
What good is freedom in name when it is never found in practice?