Russian Bear said:
“…Nobody is going to take it from you … Get used to the democratic life style, which is characteristic to your new country, the USA. It allows all these: rebellious rock-groups, dissent, freedom of speech, playing music one wants to play, voting for whoever, to be liberal or conservative. It is a free country.”
Would that this were always true! However, look beyond the USA. Freedom isn’t a given; freedom is not naturally occurring. In the USA, it was fought for; people died for it. Look at history. Throughout, people have been fighting to be free from one form of tyranny or another. The history of man is the story of one group imposing its will on another; and the latter group resisting or losing its autonomy.
We must NEVER be complacent about our freedom; but be diligently aware of, and oppose the attempts to curtail or destroy it. Young people would do well to realize this, or the freedom they take for granted today will be nothing but a footnote in history; assuming that footnote is not purged from our collective memory as well.
Think I am an alarmist? Again, look at the history of mankind. It shows that the human race is it’s own worst enemy, always. It’s capacity for horror and atrocity unlimited. A civilization ignores that reality at its peril.
