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"Free America: Is Freedom Really Free?
We all say we live in a free society, but if you cross the street without using a crosswalk, you could be arrested. How can that be freedom? When you look at it that way, it doesn't seem free. There have been major achievements in history to make our world free without question. We, the American people, have strived for centuries to keep America free. We fought the British to be free and create a beautiful country. We fought for the freeing of the slaves in the Civil War and the Nazis in World War Two, who were trying to impose a fascist government rule on Germany and the world - the exact opposite of freedom.
They say that freedom comes at a price, but why should there be a price on freedom? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Freedom seems to be something that is without a price, unexchangeable for anything, any reason, or any objective. It's irreplaceable in all expressive senses it possesses and represents. It retains and upholds liberty, independence, privilege, and license to be and to live your life as you see fit. Freedom is open to anyone who will fight for its existence, even if that fight is only to say that they yearn for it.
On the most part, we see freedom as free. If we want to go out at 3:00 a.m. for ice cream and shotgun shells, we are "free" to do just that. We, as American citizens, are accustomed to many freedoms that we sometimes take for granted, such as the freedom to speak out against anyone who is trying to infringe upon our civil liberties, the right to choose who will represent us to the rest of the world, and the freedom to make and change any rule set forth if it does not apply."

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