The Price of Freedom.
(Meaning to Die for Freedom)
Versus.
To Live in Bondage.
(Meaning to Live Without Freedom)
Comparing Apples and Oranges? Maybe!
By: Mr. George D. Patnoe., Jr!
May 26th, 2019
Memorial Day Weekend
This topic arose as a growing topic within my mind because I had read a phrase on a person’s Face book page with the phrase, “The US Marines know the price of freedom.” As if ONLY the US Marines know the price of freedom, in this case they know that their fellow marines died while serving America’s interests over seas, or protecting America’s freedoms which all Americans enjoy.
This ex. US Marine had served in a time of non-war, or no war. He is a very happy US Marine because he is very proud to have been a US Marine for four years when he was never in a battle or firefight with the enemy who was trying to kill him and his buddies. He probably even smiles when he states to other people that he served in the US Marines without ever having to kill another human being. But what about the American’s who served in other branches of the US military, like the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force? What about the families and friends of US military personal who have to live without their dads and mothers, sons and daughters, etc. who died in battles throughout the various wars in America or outside of America? Do they not know the price of freedom?
Yes I personally know this person. I also know other US Marines and Navy Seals and other people who have served in the US military who have killed other people and never once have these US military people ever smiled at me when they were telling me their stories of having to kill other human beings. Some of these ex-military have killed a lot of human beings, some of them for very good reasons too. Some of them have those invisible tears running down their faces with guilt that lingered within their mind’s memories because they can still see the blood and guts exiting a human being’s body after a bullet or more has destroyed that human body.
Is the only price of freedom or defending freedom in any country the only price of freedom that exists as an abstract mental concept within the minds of human beings who have lost their freedoms but who had to live on planet earth in the past or who have to still live on planet earth? Let us explore this with some interesting intellectual fun. I do not mean to insult that proud ex-Marine who served in a time of non-war, but I am a thinker and writer because I want my readers to think about the deeper issues of life and death, God and evil, Truth and, well anything I can write about. So let us begin, shall we!
Killing another human being should never be taken lightly! It is a very serious action!
What About the American Indians? As An Example!
Did the American Indians know the price of freedom when the white man took over their lands by killing American Indians? Many American Indians tried to defend their ‘freedoms’ and their way of life and their lands when the white man started their battles against the so-called savages of old undeveloped America. I am sure that when the American Indians were sitting around their camp fires inside or outside their teepees or Indian tents, that they would state to themselves, “Ten of our warriors died today and tomorrow another one hundred will die trying to defend our lands from those white men.
Would not that equate with what any military group of men and women would feel like when they know that their fellow warriors might die or did die in battle. There is always a sadness with people you know die in battle or not in a battle. Death and dying is a very serious thing indeed!
Dying OR Being Killed for Your Religion, or Lack Of Freedom Expression.
How many people throughout history have been killed or murdered because they decided to believe in a certain religion or they decided to not believe in a certain religion? Even today, all over the globe human beings are killed or murdered because they do not follow the rules of a certain religion or they follow a certain religion. Let us look at recent history, shall we!
Hitler and his goons put millions of Jews into concentration camps or prisons until the Jews were killed or murdered. One day those Jews were free or they were living in freedom and the next day they were on their way to their death camps, all the while waiting to die. Certainly it should be asked in this case too, what would be the price of freedom for those Jews who wanted to live in freedom instead of dying in a death camp? Maybe some of those Jews wished that if only they could get their hands on a rifle.,...
Hitler and his goons put millions of Jews into concentration camps or prisons until the Jews were killed or murdered. One day those Jews were free or they were living in freedom and the next day they were on their way to their death camps, all the while waiting to die. Certainly it should be asked in this case too, what would be the price of freedom for those Jews who wanted to live in freedom instead of dying in a death camp? Maybe some of those Jews wished that if only they could get their hands on a rifle.,...
The Catholic Church and Its Crimes Against Humanity.
How many people have been tortured and murdered in certain times of history because the catholic priests wanted people to believe in the doctrines of the Catholic church? Or even better than that, because the priests only wanted power over the people who only wanted to live out their simple lives in freedom. What would be the price of freedom for people who were wishing that they could be free from the burning fires of the wooden stakes that first burned off the skin of those human beings while their guts burned to a boiling crust.
Did the Catholic church burn thinking scientists who only wanted to state the truth about what was at the center of their known universe? Yes they did and I can only imagine what the price of those thinking scientists who wanted their freedoms to think instead of thinking like a religious machine or mind. What is the price of freedom to think freely instead of believing like brain-washed morons in any old time religion?
Did the Catholic church burn thinking scientists who only wanted to state the truth about what was at the center of their known universe? Yes they did and I can only imagine what the price of those thinking scientists who wanted their freedoms to think instead of thinking like a religious machine or mind. What is the price of freedom to think freely instead of believing like brain-washed morons in any old time religion?
How About Innocent Human Beings in America’s Prisons or Any Prison on the Globe.
What is the price of freedom when a human being is still alive but who is trapped in a prison cage when they know that they are innocent of the criminal charges that put them into a prison cell, maybe with a life sentence? An innocent human being is arrested by a no good dirty cop. He is charged with a fake, false, and bogus crime which he did not commit. He is sentenced to life imprisonment. Everyday he might state to himself, “I would rather be dead than be inside this prison cage. Why? Because he lost his or her freedom to live his life outside the prison cage. What would he give to prove his innocence so he could be free again. What is the price of freedom to innocent people in American prisons and in prisons all around the globe?
Inside the prisoner’s mind all he thinks about is his freedom, either by truth or by death. All around the globe there are innocent people or people who have been put in cages until their deaths and who are tortured because they disobeyed some stupid rules or by evil minded dictators who love to imprison their own people. What would be the price of freedom for the imprisoned people all around the world?
Political Prisoners in China and North Korea, Russia, etc. etc, etc.
How many people in China and North Korea and Russia, etc, etc, etc, are rotting in prison cages because they spoke out or even hinted at their disagreement about their governments in any way whatsoever? I bet that people who are in political prisons and who live in fear because they do not have the freedom to think and question their own governments like they can in America. Are they wishing that they could have the freedom to become political activists like they can in America? What would be the price of freedom for those trapped people who live in fear like people did before America was created as a nation with its freedoms?
What About the Countless Female Sex Slaves?
All around the globe there are countless female and maybe male sex slaves who are kidnapped and put into the sex slave industry by ruthless and greedy human males so they can make money committing the unspeakable crime of forcing unwilling females to preform sex acts on strange males day and day out for years and maybe until their deaths. What goes on in the minds of females who have to preform endless sex acts on strange males because they are trapped by evil men who care nothing about the freedoms of such trapped females. What is the mental state of these sex slaves? I would bet that at least some of these sex slaves would rather be dead than to continue their human lives as imprisoned sex slaves. What is the price of freedom for those females who can not escape their prisoned sex slave lives?
To Die for Protecting Freedom Versus Living With No Freedoms.
Human beings die for all sorts of reasons! People who served in any military around the globe at any time in history in any country are all prepared to die while serving for their country’s military, services, purposes, reasons, and to defend their countries from outside invaders. It is a humanly natural thing to defend your country from any enemy. Some people choose to die while serving their country’s military and other people are drafted into military service.
Other people who will never served in any military sometimes wish that they were dead instead of living the life that they were born into or trapped into or found themselves in for negative effects, or a negative life of suffering, torment, and pain and suffering, not to mention the pride of being a human being without being degraded into a creature less than a normal human being with no freedom of escape, like sex slaves.
Other people wish that they would rather be dead than living out their human lives by living in a steel bar cage like an animal because of religious and/or political reasons.
In America, citizens join the military because they want to serve and protect their country, but in the past they could have been drafted into the military. Around the globe citizens of other countries are drafted into their military service for a limited number of years. They will have to learn how do countless numbers of pushups and running and a bunch of crazy physical exercises that will make them puke. Some might die while servicing in their country’s militaries. It is part of the program.
On the other hand, there are people who would rather die trying to be free so they could live in freedom instead of being trapped in a metal bar cage or tortured until their human deaths, or for a whole lot of other reasons. Fighting for the freedoms and your own personal freedoms is better than being an innocent prisoner with a life sentence, or being a degraded sex slave, or being burnt to death while being hung on a stake while the flames of fire are burning you to death.
The human mind is a very tricky thing. Some people can survive being in a prison or being a sex slave while wishing that one day they might be set free to live in their personal freedom. Other people join the United States military so America and its citizens will remain free to help the world in anyway it can and to stop tyranny and evil dictatorships, etc.
To the person who stated that the US Marines know the meaning of freedom, as if only the US Marines know something about the price of freedom, well other people know something about the price of freedom too. Other people know something about the price of freedom be it the price of their country’s freedom or the price of their own personal freedom. (s) Some people know the meaning of the price of freedom in a different sort of way because they wish they had the freedoms that were taken away from them. Those people do not have a chance to die for their freedom (s), but they would die to even have a change to die to gain their freedom.
Those people might be thinking.”If I only had a chance to die for the price of freedom, even my own freedom or the freedom of my country, it would be a good death!”
