Nobel Prize is No Trade for the Freedoms-Liberties Guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence-Constitution of the United States of America

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Oct 12, 2009 at 19:48

Well, maybe here, after looking at some of the exchanges on this post and elsewhere, that it can be truly said if one does not fully appreciate the freedoms and liberties of American citizenship as developed and fought for by the founding Christian agency of this country's forebears and paid for by the blood of those sacrificing their lives for those very freedoms and liberties, any criticisms without that sense so instilled directed towards America have hollow sentiments and empty meaning. There is no Nobel Prize worth an ounce of American blood shed to protect her freedoms as provided for by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, or a gram of Nobel gold worth the dust that received that spent blood.

Do we, as Americans, really think we should be delighted to cast off those liberties so dearly paid for by wanting radical change, desiring to convert the freedoms we have and wish to share by devaluing the liberties so dearly fought for? Is it a cowboy mentality that brought this nation from the darkened societies of Europe hundreds of years ago, to forge a modern society that sought to break the yoke of imperialistic ideologies and eventually set the individual free, in spite of the persistent and malingering mentality of some who tried to keep a burden of oppression on any that did not meet a bigoted mindset that traps so many still?

Do we as Americans truly share in a prize that is political beyond the liberties expressed in the Constitution of the Unites States of America? Or, are we merely observers of a process of European invention meant to protract the same mentalities that the first true Americans sought to distance themselves from when it became apparent that true peace can only come from those desiring to keep freedom from being downtrodden by agencies looking for a false hope of global sympathies that can never agree on what freedom and liberty truly is. There should not be, indeed cannot be any trade of a gold prize for the freedoms and liberties guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, underwritten by the WORD of Almighty God, the Holy Bible.

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