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Happy Independence Day

By David Packman

First, I want to wish everyone out there a happy and safe Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Many of you, I hope, have never experienced how frightening and oppressive it can feel to have your freedom forcibly taken away from you. I know it's something I never expected to experience in my lifetime, and something I hope that you do not experience either. It's a dehumanizing and soul-crushing thing to be treated as if you were inferior to everyone else, as if you didn't deserve the same rights as others, as if you were less than human even.

But, one thing it does teach you is that freedom is a precious thing, something that we take too much for granted and give up too easily these days because freedom is much more fragile and tenuous than we realize... something I'm reminded of every time I hear someone say I deserve to be imprisoned, or tortured, or even killed for what I write.

During this holiday that marks the day our country won it's freedom, I ask you to not only celebrate your own freedom, but cherish it, contemplate what it would be like if you didn't have it, and recognize how dear this thing called freedom really is and how worthy it is of defending... because it desperately needs to be cherished and defended these days.

Enjoy your holiday weekend... and stay safe out there.

Full post as published by Injustice in Seattle on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).