Andrews,


>Good moorning.
>I in this opportunity I not going to make a consultation or question I only desire to congratulate deeply to all the friends American People in the day of their independence.
>From here Venezuela I desire them that they pass a happy day.
>Thousand congratulations.:-)


What a nice message!

As an American I find that all too often we Americans have taken the ideas of freedom and liberty and turned them into anarchy and liscentiousness. However, the original notion that was the wellspring from which freedom and liberty came from was the very simple idea that each human being intrinsically had 'worth' or 'value'. This idea, of course, is not one that is somehow owned or controlled by America. It is not based upon our wealth - as a matter of fact our real wealth is based upon this notion "That all men are created equal." That in the eyes of God all men intrinsically had worth. From this has come institutions such as those of higher education, hospitals, charities of all sorts, shapes and sizes. From this comes organizations like the Red Cross and Red Crescent - which are based upon the notion that each man, woman and child has value and therefore it is worth the time, effort and often danger to rush to the aid of one's fellow man. He may have a different faith, or a different language but God has given to each and every one the value that others recognize.

No.. America doesn't somehow 'own' freedom. We are free because at a certain point in our history all the proper circumstances came together where enlightened men consciously recognized their dependence upon God and their intrinsic worth and the resulting responsibility to promote these notions and to be willing to die for them - asd they were/are eternal truths. The American Revolution really was one of the only true revoloutions this world has ever seen. Most other so-called revolutions simply replace one dictator with another - all operating under the notion that each man's worth or value was somehow given by the government. Each government of man seems to reflect that it itself gives this value - and all too often it believes it can take it away just as easily. In America wer are supposed to understand that these rights are not the governlemt's to give or take. They are intrinsic to each individual.

Sadly many here have forgotten these simple truths as I mentioned above and have traded liberty for anarchy and freedom for liscentiousness.

The 'freedom' America offers is not America's to offer, other than leading by example perhaps. We just happened to have the grace and good fortune to recognize these truths and write them down.

They are for all mankind - or should be anyway.


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