The Meaning of Freedom
July 6, 2004
It becomes clearer all the time — as I was reminded during the Feast of the Holy Flag celebrated even in church on Sunday, and during the apotheosis of Reagan, that the meaning of the word freedom, as used by the entire establishment, is control by the US government. It is in that sense that “we” are bringing freedom to Iraq, that the civil rights revolution meant freedom, that only with the New Deal and the Great Society did this really become the land of freedom.
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Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., former editorial assistant to Ludwig von Mises and congressional chief of staff to Ron Paul, is founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, executor for the estate of Murray N. Rothbard, and editor of LewRockwell.com. He is the author of Against the State and Against the Left. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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