Freedom

[Vajradhara]

Originally Posted by one of the few

I wrote about lack of freedom thats unknow to Canadians unless they seek their rights in a court against the Government, if freedom fighters are relivent tell me how baring arms and causing civil unrest helps us gain our rights

Namaste one of the few,

thank you for the interesting post.

freedom is an interesting thing as an abstract idea and something seemingly quite a bit different on the streets, as the kids say.

nevertheless, perhaps this would answer your query:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

metta,

~v

[DrumR]

Originally Posted by one of the few

I wrote about lack of freedom thats unknow to Canadians unless they seek their rights in a court against the Government, if freedom fighters are relivent tell me how baring arms and causing civil unrest helps us gain our rights

Greetings Northern Neighbor.

One need not bare arms nor cause civil unrest to regain that which was lost.
One need not resort to violence until all reasonable considerations have been exhausted with no avail.
One need not go out on the streets to have one's message heard, especially in this technological age.

Have you a grievance? Then study it well. Expend the needed effort to codify where "things" went awry. When your studies of that grievance have been completed, ask yourself "what course of action is needed to set things back aright" and then communicate your research and conclusions to others, many others.

Many will hop aboard your bandwagon but few will jump down and stand beside you to bend their backs to the effort necessary to draw it forth and onward to its true destination. Many an attempt will be made to divert and even to stop the progression toward the stated goal. Knowing this is to be forewarned and, by extension, forearmed. Seek out those stout hearts as they will seek you out; For you are not alone in your beliefs.

Wherever men crave freedom and would see to the righting of wrongs they also will seek out others of like mind - and sometimes may find them in the most unlikely of places. Choose your arguments with care, craft you words to inspire, and be as gentlemanly as possible in all areas of this great task you would accomplish. Engage the fullness of reason in speaking to others, teach them what you know of the injustice that they might teach others and inform them of a well conceived course of action that is right and proper and within the laws of the land.

Yet such a task may be long in obtaining its fruition, such a long term goal may require that one steel themselves to the harsh critics of an opposing view. Yet it is in the end that the great and grand dream that stared out as but a small protest, put forth by a majority of one, might blossom forth into a tree whose branches arch over to provide others with the shelter of solid human rights that before were seen as but empty promises on a discarded piece of parchment gathering the dust of ages from its disuse.

Oops. I got carried away - and is that a straight-jacket they are putting on me officer?