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Land of the free? Home of the brave?
 

By JOSEPH AUDIE

Most Americans love to think of America as the land of the free and the home of the brave. Indeed, Americans are fond of trumpeting their greatness to all who will listen, of declaring loudly and boldly how free, how brave, and how generally virtuous and wonderful they and America are. Supremely confident in their freedom to do as they please within a framework of just laws and equally confident in their bravery and virtue, Americans love to sing songs of praise to themselves and to their countrymen — to shout from the treetops that they are the freest and bravest people in history, that they are the salt of the earth, a shining city on a hill for all to emulate and worship.

Unfortunately, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave, and that is quite easily demonstrated — at least to the knowledgeable and honest among us. In the most general terms, we proceed thus in our demonstration: If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave then we would expect to see certain things and not others. However, what we would expect to see, we do not see, and what we would expect not to see, we do in fact see. Hence, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.
 

Now that we have the basic logic in order, let's try to get a bit more specific, but with the understanding that our specific examples and arguments presuppose an informed reader or at least a reader who, should he doubt our examples, is willing to engage in moderate study to verify things for himself.

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then average Americans would be able to save money without having to worry about its relentless devaluation because of the machinations of a legally privileged, hidden, selfish, and unaccountable banking cartel. In a truly free society — a society of liberty under the law, a society of brave and virtuous men — folks would have the option of simply saving their money. The humble among us would not have to worry about speculating in financial devices that would defy the understanding of Newton; they would literally be able to put their money in a home safe, supremely confident in the stability of the currency. Obviously, that is not the case. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then average Americans would be able to own property free and clear; that is to say, Americans would be able to own property without having to pay thirty years of rent to usurious bankers, in the form of interest payments on fiat paper loans, and to the state, in the form of permanent and ever-rising property taxes. In a free society of brave souls, people would not be universally condemned to renting property from the unholy complex of bank and state; rather, people would have the genuine opportunity to own property and dispose of it as they saw fit, coercively limited only by the claims of natural justice. Clearly, that is not the case. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then Americans would pay less in taxes to the American state than the enslaved Israelites paid to Pharaoh. But Americans pay far more in taxes than the Israelites; the American state demands far more in tribute than Pharaoh ever dreamed. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.
 

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then Americans would be able to purchase an incandescent light bulb, and buy the toilet of their dreams, all without having to worry about the state and its arbitrary impositions. In a free society of brave souls, people would mock and scorn Caesar and his pretentious desire to regulate toilet and light-bulb commerce and usage; a free and brave people would refuse to comply with such nonsense, confident in their ability to get light bulbs and toilets right all by themselves. Simply put, in a free society of brave men, there would be no possibility of getting locked in a cage for changing a light bulb or flushing a toilet without Caesar's permission. Obviously, that is not the case. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then the general spirit of the Communist Manifesto, as well as five full planks of it, would not be a matter of settled policy, while implementation of the other five planks continued apace, as they were actively, publicly, and seriously discussed and gradually realized. If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, we would not live in country that, by any reasonable interpretation of the Communist Manifesto, is 100 percent communist in spirit and 50 percent communist in practice. Yet that is the case. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then Americans, men in particular, would not sit in cowardly silence as their wives, daughters, and sisters, innocent as doves, were randomly and virtually strip-searched at airport security barriers by agents of the state. Brave men, virtuous men, jealous of their freedoms, welcome the responsibility of providing security for their children, sisters, and wives; free and brave men protect their women folk; free and brave men don't allow their women to be groped and fondled so that they might purchase a measure of security, ultimately illusory, from the all-pervasive security state — a state that seeks to rival God in omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. Free and brave men understand that they and not the state are responsible for the their own security and the security of their neighbor; free and brave men understand that the indiscriminate use of naked-body-imaging scanners has nothing to do with security but everything to do with the state's waging psychological warfare against the people and extending its arbitrary control over them. Free and brave men do not make a false god out of security. Tragically, none of that is the case. Rather, the random use of naked-body-imaging scanners by the state is the final humiliation, the ultimate evidence that the American people — American men in particular — are a broken and pathetic rabble of scared, selfish, and ignorant children. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, assuming that people wore little "advocacy" ribbons and lapel pins at all, they would wear ribbons and lapel pins that called attention to state violence and not, in keeping with the Marxist project of social upheaval and cultural destruction, to so-called domestic or family violence. In a truly free society of brave men and women, mothers and fathers would be attending workshops on how to spot child abuse at the hands of strangers and state workers, not the other way around. Tragically, in both instances the opposite is the case. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.
 

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then American children would be able to set up lemonade stands, sell cookies, play with toy guns, and have yard sales, free from molestation by the state. Indeed, in a free society populated by brave souls, such youthful entrepreneurship would be encouraged, unleashed, and celebrated. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then grown men would not be obsessed and distracted by video games and fantasy football. Rather, they would have deep knowledge of bravery and freedom, and would be vigilant and unrelenting in their defense of freedom and their desire to cultivate bravery. A conversation with the average man, even a college graduate, clearly reveals that this is not the case. Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Finally, if America were the land of the free and the home of the brave, then, quite simply, Americans would be the last people to trumpet that to the world — yet they do so, and in a most annoying manner and to a most annoying extent. Just like the fellow who betrays his lack of athletic ability by constantly talking about his supposed athletic achievements, and just like the fellow who confesses his ignorance by constantly talking about how smart he is, so too a country that constantly declares its freedom, bravery, and virtue is a country that lacks real freedom, real bravery, and real virtue.

Thus, America is not the land of the free and the home of the brave. Ω

March 11, 2011 

Published in 2011 by WTM Enterprises.
 

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