Freedom's Challenge

Freedom's Challenge

Freedom's Challenge encompasses many things. Our freedom includes our basic rights and everything that we take for granted, the right to vote, the right of free speech, and just feeling safe on a daily basis. In other countries, freedom is not given. War is a given. We challenge freedom all the time and we do not know it. Just living our daily lives, we are continually challenges freedom.

In the United States, freedom's challenge has changed in the recent years. With the terrorist's attacks and the War in Iraq, freedom has been challenged. The new laws restricting what we can do. The new laws because of the terrorist's attacks may invade our privacy with the monitoring of phone calls and random searches at the airport and that is why freedom is being challenged. It is not just the government and their laws that challenge freedom; we can also challenge freedom through our actions. We challenge freedom by excersing our basic rights. When we voice our opinions about the government, we challenge freedom. When we go to vote and exercise our rights, we challenge freedom. Most of the daily things we do are challenging freedom.

Freedom's challenge is also trying to get back to what the ancestors wanted our country to be. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson did not want government to be all about the politician's personal business. Freedom's challenge is to get back to what they wanted. They wanted a government where people could do what they wanted and the government would work for the people not for the money. Freedom's challenge is to get back to what our ancestors envisioned.