>>And we did pay a much, much higher price for our liberty through the historical battlefields of europe.
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>That's funny. Are you claiming that all those historical European battles were for liberty and that your liberty was gained because of them?

At all battlefields there was one fighting for control over another. So at least one party was fighting for their liberty.
My liberty was gained by the defeat of europe on the battlefield of WWII (just think of that).