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The Enemy of Freedom

Astute words from Michelle Malkin via Capitol Hill Cubans:

The Enemy of Freedom

From Michelle Malkin in Hot Air:

The true enemy of freedom is fear.

It's fear that makes people abandon the last, faded pretense of democracy, at the insistence of thugs and secret police. The lonely souls that yearn for freedom in a dictatorship do so in silence, because they fear that if they speak up, there will be more enforcers bearing down on them, than friends standing beside them. This is the terrible silence that America's voice was meant to shatter.

We know that we cannot liberate the rest of the world with military force. Our greatest weapon against tyranny is our courage. We know that freedom is not a special privilege reserved for people fortunate enough to have been born in the United States. We know it's not a peculiar quirk of Western culture, impractical or meaningless to the people of other nations. We know from the writings of Russian dissidents that the strong support of the American president helped them endure prison cells and exile camps.

We should never hesitate to roar our defiance, and contempt, in the faces of dictators. They have no more right to rule the people of Iran, Honduras, Cuba, or Venezuela than they did to rule Germany, Russia, or France. The language of freedom cannot be properly spoken by appeasers, manipulators, or international socialists. It is the speech of eagles and lions.

The president of the United States, traditionally the leader of the free world and the Commander in Chief of the armed forces charged with defending said freedom is obligated, in words and action, to defend this heritage. Our current leader's siding with dictators who oppose these principles has in my opinion, shown that he is unfit for the office he holds. Unfortunately our congress, unlike the brave Hondurans, are led by those who also side with the enemies of freedom.

2 comments to The Enemy of Freedom

  • Honey

    Can someone please explain to me why Uribe is siding with Chavez? The press loves to say "Chavez and the right wing Uribe". I see no "communist usurper of freedom Chavez" in that phrase.
    I can't understand what Uribe gets out of siding with the communists. Are we not to trust him anymore either?

  • firefly

    Honey,

    What about President Oscar -Nobel Prize for Peace- Arias of Costa Rica? I don't know how he could sit on the same table with raul castro, daniel ortega and hugo chavez.

    By the way, another infamous character (IMHO)the former U.S. Secretary of Defense to President Kennedy, Robert McNamara died today. I'm sure he's having to answer to many up in heaven.

    May he not rest in peace.