Saturday, November 8, 2008

the hollow statue

One of America's greatest blessings is its love of freedom and liberty. Indeed, this great country was founded upon freedom and independence from its motherland. At the same time, I'm beginning to think that this liberty has become one of America's greatest curses. Liberty seems to have shifted from a means to an end in itself.

We are told to live as "free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice." But that's exactly what is happening. Evil has put on the cloak of liberty, and the guise seems to be working very well. People are using liberty as an excuse to advance whatever ulterior motives they have--and the general American population buys it willingly.

But to what end? What is backwards is now called right, and what is crooked is now straight. Evil is cloaked in the word "choice." It has gotten to the point where we can now take another's life because sustaining that life would be "too expensive." But who am I to tell you what to do? It's your freedom.

It's _____'s way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now
Because

YOU HAVE NOT BEEN PAYING ATTENTION.

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