Freedom remains relevant in states

This piece is primarily in response to the letter "Reader sees freedom as culturally relative" published in the Exponent on Oct. 11, which referred to American freedom as "fake" and "nonsense." To say freedom is relevant, you are correct. Freedom in America is not meant in the absolute, lack of regard for order and law sense that you are thinking of. True and pure freedom comes for many in the heaven that the blood of Christ provides. I know some believe in other ways, but that is a whole different argument. However, saying American freedom does not exist is to be ignorant of the very idea of what it is and the privileges it provides everyone in the U.S. The very fact that you can practice your Islamic faith in America is a result of the thousands of men and women who have died courageously and honorably in the pursuit and successful securing of the very freedom you label as "fake" and "nonsense." These freedoms are also why we do not interfere in the lives of people in Afghanistan, Palestine and Indonesia, whose lives you seem to think we desire to control. We only interfere when deranged excuses for life from some of these countries conspire to cowardly massacre innocent and defenseless human beings. Then we so rudely interfere by dropping millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to helpless refugees and risking the lives of our own patriots to remove the regimes that tyrannically ruin these people’s lives. If you want someone to talk about your ideas of freedom with, you and bin Laden should get together and talk in some cave over a fire fueled by the rubble of freedom-providing U.S. cruise missiles.

Ryan Speicher

Senior, School of Management

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