A champion of liberty
Quoted an old man in reference to a young man who lost his life yesterday.
A champion of liberty. Sounds sweet. To be a champion of liberty.
Yet, liberty for whom is the question.
Liberty for all, or for a select few?
It was never intended for the statement – all men are created equal – to apply to all men, and certainly not women. Those who wrote this script wrote it believing in a world where one group were men created equally and the other group was not really part of the human family, and as such, did not deserve equal rights.
The young man wanted liberty for a particular group of people. The right to say anything, including propagating violence and hate. His rights, but not others’ rights to say violent things about his group. (To be clear, I oppose violent statements and actions about any group of people.) The right to bear arms, even with the consequences of a few unfortunate deaths. I am pretty certain he did not see himself in that unfortunate event category. The right for his in-group to be absolved of crimes when committing acts of violence against the out-group. But that same right is not extended to the out-group – the out-group being all the people who didn’t look like him or believe like him.
A champion of selected liberty is a more accurate way to frame this.
Good parenting teaches our children that our actions have consequences. Syntropic World teaches that to every action there is a precessional effect at right angles to the action, and that we are responsible for those consequences. (https://syntropic.world/imagine-if-our-goals-are-not-the-point-the-principle-of-precession/)
When we insist on a world that only sees one very small group of people as deserving of liberty and rights, when we speak of the other group of people as lesser than, when we see women as minions and birthing factories for the minority of white men in power, when we champion violence – then we will get violence.
This is the precessional effect. The inability to take responsibility for consequences shows the immaturity of those who champion violence in the name of liberty, no matter which side of the political divide you are on.
To be a true champion of liberty is to be for all liberty for the entire human family. Same rules, same consequences.
Daily, we slip further away from this.
Daily we must dig deep, go into the well of love, decency, morality and integrity, and stand for all-liberty. Even better, we must do it together against the swell of hate.
Photo Taken September 10th 2025, Article published September 12th, 2025
