The language of freedom has been appropriated by those who would do us in

Let me be specificThe killers in Somalia who are preventing the exit of dying peopleThe inflexible people in our own Congress who somehow managed to hijack both narrative and agendaThe Koch spawn who explicitly regard themselves as messengers of libertyThe reason they would do us in is that in every case it is my way or the highwayAnd when that is true liberty is a shamLiberty requires tolerance and a commitment to democracyIt can never be perfect because it is the product of compromises in all relationshipsThe forces mentioned in the first lines above are oblivious to these valuesThey are therefore inimical to liberty and are in fact trying to do us inWhyBecause liberty is life itself and - as our liberty is threatened  - so too is life itselfThe picture on the front page of yesterday's NYT is the sign that we must read in order to gird ourselves against the forces representing not freedom but tyranny
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