The cornerstone of a free and stable society is a legal contract between the state and the citizens. The obligations of both sides are laid out in the constitution of a country. The freedoms enjoyed by the citizenry are not given by the state, they are the birthright of all people. The constraints placed on a modern man living in an urban networked society are such that some freedoms must be bartered away. A free man can not murder another free man without intervention by a society empowered to protect and serve those that empower it. When the state forgets that the sole authority of its powers rests with the will of the people, and the bargain the people make to live together, the state loses its right to wield that power. A state that no longer abides by the contract it made, solely because it has greater power than the citizenry, must be resisted with all possible force by the citizenry. History has shown us what a state that no longer respects the legal binds and protections placed on it will do. The rights of a single individual that are destroyed will set a precedent for all of us.
The rights of the common people were not granted to us by the leniency of the state. They were won by the hard struggle of the men and women of this world. The state will tell you that you are free because they allow you to be free but this is not the case and it has never been the case. You are a free individual by right of your birth. You were born free, you will live free and you die free. The only prison you will ever face is the prison for your mind. All else is just another form of liberty. Free your mind from the constraints placed upon it by the state in its attempt to control you and you will always be free. Don’t fight to free me for I am free, fight to free those who forget that the state exists only because we will it into existence, and we can change its existence just as easily.
-Aki Greus
1 comment:
aki all the best to you! never even heard about your struggle before hs mentioned you today and i hope that you will win this ordeal of yours and maybe this is the kind of push that we need to change this system in finland. great article in voima too! big hugs from turku hippies! fight the power!
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