April 5, 2011
By HaroldRonald R. Cherry, MD
4/3/2011
George Orwell, in his book “1984,” noted that totalitarian government, such as that found in Socialist Oceania, depends on the ability of government to convey big lies to their subjects, such as “War is Peace,” “Ignorance is Strength,” and “Freedom is Slavery.” Under totalitarian government freedom of the individual is called slavery, and slavery of the individual is called freedom.
“And if liberty is to be attributable of the real man and not of the scarecrow invented by the individualistic Liberalism, then Fascism is for liberty. It is the only kind of liberty that is serious – the liberty of the State.” Benito Mussolini
Is human freedom really the individual’s slavery to the State – in order to give the State total freedom? Freedom is often referred to as liberty, but what exactly is liberty? We sense freedom in our minds and we feel it in our bone marrow, but how do we put it into words? Liberty as defined by our Founding Fathers was not the same as “Liberty” defined by European Socialist Philosophers and Dictators. Thomas Jefferson, better than anyone in history, defined human liberty in his 1819 letter to Isaac H. Tiffany.
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” Thomas Jefferson... Read More
