Richie Havens has gone on to a different freedom now but he gave us this. Let us forget neither him nor what he gave us:
Many have willing given away their freedom in the hope for safety but in doing so they are now neither safe nor free. Any expectation of freedom at the hands of the police is not realistic as that isn't what the police do. Any expectation of freedom based on your guns isn't realistic as that isn't what guns do.
Freedom is love is peace. Ever was it so.
R.I.P. Richie Havens
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Show me anywhere freedom came as a result of peace. Freedom always comes as a result of conflict "ever was it so".
I submit that freedom comes from competent diplomacy. When fighting for freedom, typically it's fighting to prevent some type of despot from taking it away. However, there would be no chance for the despot to do that had not diplomats failed to address his growing power prior to the point of it coming to combat. For example, with WWII it's ever so fashionable to point fingers at Neville Chamberlain and his efforts toward appeasement but there's never any mention of the absence of activity from anywhere else toward preventing Hitler growing to power until it became such a problem that there was no alternative but war. America was big on isolationism at the time so of course it had no responsibility.
so by not preventing Hitler's growing power, other's were responsible for his actions? Yet Bush by preventing Hussiens growing power was the "evil" one. I don't defend Bush however it should be a level playing field, I could care less about weapons of mass destruction, he slaughtered his own Kurdish people.Out of conflict comes freedom ever shall it be.
They aren't responsible for what he did but rather it could have been, at a minimum, curtailed had anyone taken action at the time. I absolutely believe any war is a result of failed diplomacy and that if there is any social imperative toward war, it is through incompetence rather than grand design. As to preventing Hussein's growing power, there is very little evidence that it was growing. Most of the claims about what he was doing were shown to be false. I submit you would find a much better example of what you're trying to illustrate in North Korea as they certainly are doing everything Hussein was accused of doing. The U.S. AND China have let it slide for sixty years and now there's a problem. The diplomacy failed a long time ago. Whenever there is a lapse in peace, it is because diplomats and politicians have failed. Ever shall that be! (laughs)
A competent politician ,the definition of paradox.
No problem with agreement on that!
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