Last night I wrote up my little blurb on the folks in Hong Kong who protested the loss of their freedom. Then, after I went to bed, I was thinking more about the story and I feel I have to go a little further.
The thing is, I really think we take our freedom for granted in this country. I know I do. I rarely think twice about the fact that I get to vote, that I get to speak out when I think something is wrong, that I get to have my spiritual beliefs and worship freely. There are MANY places in this world, though, where this is not the case. Can you even imagine having to live in fear for your life or worse, the lives of your family every day if you even dared to speak out against the system? I can’t! That would be awful. We forget how lucky we are.
And what is worse is that we become so used to the way things work and forget that it does not HAVE to be that way. It would be possible for someone to come in, disrupt our way of life VERY QUICKLY and take over. It is so easy for us to start to feel invinsible, but we are not. There are weapons out there that could do the trick real fast! So in light of all that I have just said, you can see why it infuriates me that a president who is trying very hard to protect our GREAT COUNTRY and the GREAT way that we live here is attacked for doing so. Well, I will not attack him. In fact I will go further and I will thank him.
THANK-YOU Mr. President for protecting me and the country I love. Thank-you for not taking my freedom for granted. Thank you for standing strong in the face of adversity to keep sacred all that is good about this country. You are my hero, and I believe history will remember you as such.
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