{"id":92495,"date":"2019-11-07T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=92495"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T14:12:08","slug":"freedom-isnt-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92495","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Isn&#8217;t Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-70451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sky-over-Sedge-Meadow-pond-Aug-13-2016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sky-over-Sedge-Meadow-pond-Aug-13-2016-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sky-over-Sedge-Meadow-pond-Aug-13-2016-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sky-over-Sedge-Meadow-pond-Aug-13-2016-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sky-over-Sedge-Meadow-pond-Aug-13-2016-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lest we forget, it will be the 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9. When it happened, it was broadcast on TV. To say that it was a euphoric event is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube video from historian Jamie Shea is well worth the time it takes to view it.<\/p>\n<p>It was not just the Wall that was removed. \u00a0The unfortunate and unforeseen consequence of Angela Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, being elected as the head of the EU has been a great load of damage to Europe in those countries, including the UK, where allowing incoming ME refugees was tolerated. However, there are many countries that were behind the Iron Curtain that said not just \u201cNo,\u201d but \u2018Hell, NO!\u201d to Merkel\u2019s proposals and put up razor wire fences at their borders.<\/p>\n<p>And while this historic event marked the end of the USSR, there are those who want to put us all under that kind of stagnant, bankrupt dictatorship sitting in our own government\u2026 and you know who they are.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Jamie Shea video. It\u2019s a little over an hour and well worth your time.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z0Iy1oGcXZ8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z0Iy1oGcXZ8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the Wall fell, and before Eastern Europe\u2019s separation from the rest of the world was eliminated by sledgehammers and ropes and dragging horrific thugs like Nicolae Ceaucescu and his bitch wife Elena in Romania into the streets to execute them, there were many people who escaped in whatever manner they could. If you don&#8217;t remember Soviet tanks in Czechoslovakia in 1968, well &#8211; I do.<\/p>\n<p>The best remembered escapee from East Berlin was a young Ostdeutchen Conrad Schumann, an East Berlin policeman at Checkpoint Charlie in 1961, who waited for the right moment to take a desperate chance and jump the fence to the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uDPG4zTdm-w\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uDPG4zTdm-w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were other escapees, as shown in this video:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cfffp60Gjx4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cfffp60Gjx4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We now have an insidious, behind-the-scenes platform of crapweasels who publicly profess that they want to destroy a system that works quite well and replace it with that crap. They don\u2019t understand that the very crap they adhere to never lasts. Never.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the USSR and the destruction of 1400 miles of Soviet barriers in central and eastern Europe should prove that. The protests in Hong Kong a short wile ago should prove that. The protests and dreadful misery in Venezuela should prove that. The repeated escapes from Norkiland by desperate souls should prove that.<\/p>\n<p>But it goes right over the brainless heads of the Marxist-loving twits. They really do believe that crap, which looks good but is made up of hot air, dust bunnies and cobwebs.<\/p>\n<p>All their promises are made up of hot air, buzz words, and psychobabble. Reality is painfully clear on that subject. Death and destruction are the reality.<\/p>\n<p>Between them, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung killed off something on the order of 120 millions. Hitler&#8217;s rampage wasn&#8217;t just about getting rid of the Jews. It was also inflicted on anyone who was not &#8220;perfect&#8221;, e.g., epileptics, the disabled, people with Down Syndrome. Pol Pot, over there in Cambodia, starved and executed over 2 million Cambodian citizens. Their bones are in a museum, to remind people of the reality of it.<\/p>\n<p>Never take for granted the freedom we live in. It\u2019s too easy to lose it. Freedom is not free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest we forget, it will be the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall &hellip; <a title=\"Freedom Isn&#8217;t Free\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=92495\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freedom Isn&#8217;t Free<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92496,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92495\/revisions\/92496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}