Jay Honeck writes:

You're the one who challenged the facts.

There are no "facts" at issue here.

No one was "crowing" about freedom until you denied its existence
in the United States.

Americans constantly brag about "freedom." Freedom this, Freedom
that; they love to use the word. Indeed, they talk about it a lot
more than they practice it. They seem to think they invented freedom,
and they also seem to think they have a monopoly on it.

In my relatively brief lifetime, I've started three businesses, moved
my family across state lines, flown airplanes, driven cars, and ridden
motorcycles across this continent from coast to coast -- all without
permission from any governmental body.

That's possible in a great many countries.

No permission was ever granted, because none was required. In a free
country we are free to do these things, by law, unquestioned.

How many TFRs have you flown into? Have you ever had all your
property seized because someone hinted that you might be doing
something illegal (even if you weren't)? Has the Secret Service ever
thrown you out of your house or office for Presidential events?

There are a lot of bad things that can happen, and a lot of freedoms
that no longer exist. Just because you haven't experienced these bad
things and haven't missed the freedoms that you've lost doesn't make
it okay.

Right now my plane is sitting in its hangar, ten minutes from here,
fully fueled and ready to go. If I wished, I could go fly it to
California right now -- a distance of 1350 nautical miles -- without
saying a word to anyone, or asking permission of *any* governmental
body.

Unless you find a TFR surrounding your airport, in which case you
can't go anywhere.

I am free to bitch, moan and complain about every idiot in my
government -- and do so loudly and frequently, in very public forums.
I do all of these things, every day, without fear of reprisal or
consequences.

Unless you say something that sounds threatening, in which case you
can end up in a Federal prison. And if some of these officials don't
like you, they can have you thrown in jail for no particular reason at
all.

Read the U.S. Code sometime; it can be enlightening.

I challenge you to name another country where I could do all of these
things with the same degree of freedom and odds of success.

Most developed countries allow these things.

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