Monday, January 16, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. and “Resolving the Issue” of Freedom and Liberty

It seems appropriate, today, to acknowledge Martin Luther King Jr.  After all, it is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  So I went back into the archives here and located a post I put up in June 2007 titled On Civil Disobedience.

That 2007 post of mine, though, is not what I want to draw your attention to once again.  What I want to draw your attention to is a post of Billy Beck’s from June 2007 titled “Evasion Is Not Resolution”, which Billy penned in response to an email exchange and a post at the SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists website titled Fighting the IRS ... to the Death?.

If we, as Americans, desire to lay claim to freedom and liberty as it originally was considered at the formation of the United States, without having to resort to violence, we can learn some very valuable lessons from King, and Billy speaks to this idea.  Billy’s closing words.

I’m talking about resolving the issue. Not evading it.

One contribution I have to the ideas floating around for resolving the issue of freedom and liberty can be found in these words I wrote in 2003.

Why is there such a confounded need to label yourself or align yourself within a group? Can we not just be men with like minded ideas of liberty and sovereign individuality? Even if some of your political ideologies differ in regards to the size of government, as compared to other labeled individuals, does the group label offer you any kind of safety, or is it just a need to belong that is being fulfilled by the label? The group mentality, in most instances, only provides a bludgeon to use against other groups.

UPDATE:  “The Sword That Heals”.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/16 at 12:45 PM
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