Take the Iron Curtain as a real-life example<\/a> of tyrannical governments and their ability to restrict movement and separate people. Life on both sides of the Berlin Wall was completely different. However, the ones behind the curtain didn\u2019t realize just how different life was on the side of freedom.<\/span><\/p>\nDisbelief and shock for the East German and Czech families who crossed over into West Germany upon the destruction of the Berlin Wall was evident to eyewitnesses. The people from the East side would stop and stare into shop windows, gaping at a society who produced a system in which two or three different kinds of the same product were available.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAre your store shelves fully stocked?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nThey would look around for someone to provide their travel plans and were suspicious when no officials cared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nDo you have your QR code ready?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nThey were shocked by the level of dialogue and opposition allowed on television and radio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHave you been cancelled for disagreeing with the mainstream narrative?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nThey were stunned about freedom\u2019s economic and political by-products in Western Europe\u2014prosperity, democracy, and general happiness. They could not believe how much people smiled. <\/span><\/p>\nWhen is the last time you saw a stranger smile?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nThis detonation of freedom for over 200 million people behind the Iron Curtain was not spontaneous or an accident. The freedom lost had to be regained and worked toward.<\/span><\/p>\nConvoys from the East and the West of Canada travelled thousands of miles to converge on the capital city of Ottawa. These are hard-working, salt of the earth, middle-class people. These people have lit the fire in Canadians, both good and bad, mind you. Nevertheless, following the miles of truckers with highways and overpasses teeming with people waving Canadian flags and rallying for their freedoms made me cry. And oh, the emotion and smiles. When the Hutterites, a pacifist group of people, come out to support a movement, you know something has gone terribly wrong.<\/span><\/p>\nThese truckers are fighting for the freedoms of everyone in Canada, not just themselves, and it’s certainly not for bad road conditions. They have been called a fringe minority. Extremists. Radicals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIs Freedom a Radical Idea?<\/b><\/p>\n
Today in the world, political freedom is regressing. It is becoming rare and unusual. The countries considered the freest in the world are incorrectly applying the notion of freedom. Now they are starting to see just how much we will take.<\/span><\/p>\nNever take the permanence of freedom for granted. You would think freedom would be a natural condition for humankind. It’s not. We must work at it, and we must fight for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOur personal and political freedoms are an ideal we need to protect. What are you willing to do to protect your freedom?<\/span><\/p>\nThe truckers in Canada have are clear about what they are willing to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBring Trudeau’s Iron Curtain down before we are the ones bewildered by the actions of the free world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you take political freedom for granted? Political freedom is described as freedom from oppression or coercion, the absence of disabling conditions for an individual and the fulfillment of enabling conditions in society. I certainly took freedom for granted growing up in Canada. I was curious about the world but only left the country once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":698,"featured_media":45577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[18048,18035,5096,11290,15281,36158,2116,36379,36380,13550,36378,12457,16056,36381,1793,3410,36377,2024,14200,2018],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Berlin-Wall.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45632,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45576\/revisions\/45632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45576"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}