OPINION:
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recently decried the way the U.S. responded to COVID-19, “warning that Americans were all too eager to give up their freedoms on the say-so of a few chief executives” (Web, May 18).
America was founded on the principle of individual freedom, and our Founding Fathers sacrificed much to secure the freedoms Americans enjoy today. It is hard to comprehend how quickly these freedoms were lost during the pandemic. Government and media combined to marginalized and to deprive families of necessities by causing prime income earners to either submit to a totalitarian government order (which violated the Nuremburg Code and personal religious beliefs) or lose their jobs.
Prominent citizens were pitted against citizens who stood up for their God-given freedoms. Arnold Schwarzenegger — who was allowed to immigrate to a free America from a country that not too many years ago oppressed the freedoms of its citizens — obviously forgot that freedom for all is precious. He insulted millions of Americans when, in an August 2021 CNN interview, he said, “Screw your freedom!”
It is very sad that so many Americans seem unaware of the sacrifices made over hundreds of years by men and women who gave years of their lives to secure the freedoms we Americans enjoy.
I wish to remind all Americans of what a “super patriot” said over 200 years ago. In 1775, Patrick Henry famously said, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
BEN SANTAITI
Olney, Maryland
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