Two Loves

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. "   William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

 
How many people hide behind the concept of loving others when, in fact, they really love themselvs?  The most dangerous person on the planet is the person who has it in their mind that only they know what is the right thing for the rest of us because they will do all that is possible to prevent you and me from being secure in our own right to live as we believe we should without hinderance from a governmental body or any one person who will tell us we are not intelligent enough to make decisions ourselves.  The second most dangerous person on the planet is the one which blindly supports the first and tells the rest of us to shut up.  The third most dangerous person on the planet is the one that shuts up. 
         Every law, every amendment, is nothing more than an incursion into your and my freedoms.  Support those who create them and you support slavery of yourselves and the rest of us.  Speak nothing and you aid those who support slavery.  Rise up and speak your mind and you can prevent the loss of not only your freedom, my freedom but the freedom of future generations.   If you fear standing up for your freedom and my freedom and future generations' freedoms then you are, in my estimation, not worthy of being free at all.