On Free Will

Free will is our first and foremost right. It is something we are all born with. But strangely enough only some of us dare use it.

Free will gives one the opportunity to exist in the agora, in the public forum. It gives one the right to voice their concerns, their fears, their emotions, and yes, their political will.

Free speech stems directly from Free Will.

I was recently on a trip to the old country, as I like to call the country of my birth, Romania.

And on this trip I hesitate call a vacation, even though mia cara esposita had no such qualms, she even called it, wrongly I might add, a bachelor’s vacation, on this trip, I decided to get tickets to what I thought was a big soccer match.

It turned out I was wrong, since UKR was playing RO but not at national teams level. This was, disappointingly, a junior’s soccer game played by 18 to 21 year-olds. It was still a ball of a game, and even though we missed the self-inflicted goal RO managed to score for their opponents in the 89th minute of the match, we still loved it.

I say we because I had invited one of my old buddies, who I knew was a through and through ‘microbist’, meaning he has the soccer microbe. Incidentally, 20 years back, it was he I went with to watch the previous soccer match.

But before we went to the new venue, which was grand btw, I knew we had to grab something to eat and maybe some drinks as well. So, we started prowling the streets in the vicinity of the stadium, looking for a nice Romanian traditional restaurant. As the hordes of RO and UKR fans were already on a mission to secure food and drinks, our task proved a little daunting. I must say there were a lot of Ukrainian folk in Bucharest.

We finally got to the mall, where we located the Ciorbarie, where a RO-food deprived me got a chance to stuff his pie-hole with some tripe soup and sarmale, and a singularly exquisite piece of cake. But as we were getting inside the Mall, we chanced on a group of soccer athletes from Croatia.

And before my weary, and timid buddy could restrain me, I started merrily shouting at the Croats: “Long live Hrvatska and Thompson!” By this I meant this dude.

To this the Croats smiled, said something in Croatian and merrily went their way. But my friend was livid with fear. He told me not to do that again, not in his presence. He asked me if I was trying to start a fight. To which I told him that I did not. I told him that Thompson was a national hero in his native land, and chances were super high that any Croat worth his salt would be a Thompson supporter as well. For Pete’s sake, Croatia’s own female president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, loves Thompson.

But my friend was unabashedly afraid of my public outbursts. And that’s when I realized that some people are their worst enemies. Instead of taking joy in living free, expressing themselves in the public fora, they choose to live their lives like secluded spiders, always avoiding the limelight, staying out of the light, and out of sight… and trouble. Or so they always hope.

And that is exactly why and how the right to speak one’s mind is becoming more and more of a rare bird nowadays. People are increasingly afraid to speak, to get their voices heard, to commit, to utter their discontent, or their joy.

But as the populace absent-mindedly loses its first right of Free Speech, the elites move on to the next in their line of sight: the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

This right is enshrined in America’s Bill of Rights.

What most people never stop and think, especially those who are trying to take away this, and any other right, for that matter, is the fact that this right and in general most rights, are innate.

Meaning all of us are born with all the rights the Creator has seen fit to endow upon us.

No document, no Constitution creates this or most other rights. The Bill of Rights codifies but does not create the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. This Right precedes all Legal Documents.

What the U.S. Constitution does however, and this one’s a biggie, it ensures the Government is constrained by Its codification. And this is huge because as we can see nowadays, about 230 years after the Founding Fathers came up with the right wording, the human part of government is in the process of violating this very Right.

But why?

Because the Left is trying to shape the human animal, society into… well, into something else. In their deluded misshapen minds, they think Rights come from the State. And that it is up to the State to decide what rights and obligations people have.

I would even go further, much further than that. I would say that political franchise was extended to women also because the elites realized the potential for splitting up the men’s vote, by introducing a dark horse into the political race.

Women tend to see violence as something that should be reserved to only the most restrained, more balanced members of the political establishment (i.e., police, armed forces, maybe a few chosen civilians who display lots of cold blood and self-control). Women could never fathom their being manipulated by the elite for ulterior reasons such as and including the elimination of civilian ownership of guns.

For the sake of the argument, I would say that some people say we cannot blame female naivete for this. They claim women have an inherent motive in disarming civilians as they see men as their natural enemies. You know, folks, we call such people feminists and neo-Marxists. Need I reiterate my feelings on the subject? Oh well, if you insist, I will give you a hint: it involves making H2O on Neo-Communism.

On the other hand, the Right side of the political spectrum believes that all men are endowed by Providence, not the State, with certain inalienable rights.

Man has reason, individual and corporate dignity, individual and corporate value, and these are not subject to revision by any prince, power, or potentate.

KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON

This Right exists outside the realm of State. And if anything should owe its existence to something else, it would be the State that owes its being here to the 2nd Amendment. Such a Right, like most other Rights, exists outside the realm of the Law. As for the State, it was supposed to protect our rights from time to time, not take them away; thus, nullifying its prima faciae raison d’être. But since the State failed to protect the people from criminals and marauders, our last line of defense remains the good book, the U.S. Constitution.

And quite ironically, the Constitution of 1789, is literally fulfilling its role as protector of our rights from the supposed caretaker, Government.

But in the end, it all comes down to Free Will. People have certain inalienable rights. One of which, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, together with the Right to Free Speech, separates us from the abject state of subject to a monarch or potentate. Personally, I like Freedom. So I choose to be Free.

Free Will is what makes People Human. It’s the driving force of Humanity. It’s what motivates people to take chances, take on risks, to dare reach for the impossible, to cross mountains, desserts, or even the gulf of space. And when people reach new planets, they go up the highest peaks, to look over the horizon for new worlds to discover. That’s what makes us Human.

Free Will is what gives us all purpose. It animates us. It makes us willing to risk our lives on a gentleman’s gamble. For what is a gentleman? A gentleman is a noble man. And what is true nobility?

And if that wager we take with our past self is about proving we can cross a dangerously perfidious river, then when the flame of our life is in danger of being extinguished, and we fight for our next breath, and every fiber of our mortal coil knows that it’s now or never, do or die, and we think our life hangs on the whim of the mighty turbulent river, we put up a fight that takes us literally to the other shore.

And even though we are exhausted after having fought the whirlpools, the eddies, the undercurrents threatening to sink us and put us in the drink as they say in the British Navy, we are happy. We have made the grade. We have met the conditions of true nobility. For we are now better at navigating life’s eddies, undertows, and tourbillons.

We have survived despite the elements. As the Parazitii song Timp pentru Mine or Time for myself goes “Life is an exam but the street remains the Test.”

We also know not to do it ever again. Because why? Because per Bacco, it was fracking nip and tuck, especially the last couple hundred meters against that blasted current. But Life is about Free Will, and that, my folks, is about Choices.

No State, no Government has the power, the authority, to ban swimming, or any other activity that involves one’s enjoyment of one’s natural rights. And if a person made a choice that resulted in that person’s demise, and no other’s, then so be it. We all live by our choices. Some of us even die by them.

The exercise of Free Will gives us all dominion over our own bodies. And it is for no exterior authority to decide what Free People can do with their own bodies.

Or perhaps I am wrong, and most people truly want just the “Freedom to be Comfortable”. I like comfort too. But not at the price of my freedom.

In the end it all comes down to a simple choice: Mercy from Pain or Painful Freedom. I know what I want. Do you?