The Lion Is Awake
Over the course of my many decades on planet Earth it has been my pleasure and sometime chagrin to have experienced living in and visiting other nations outside the borders of the United States of America. I have been to free and quasi-free countries like Japan, Okinawa, Guam, Spain and the Philippine Islands. Made visits to and lived in other nations not so free such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, with flyovers of totally totalitarian states like Vietnam and Communist China. In every case the free or quasi-free nations had one thing in common; a sense of freedom among its peoples to go about their lives in relative ease of not fearing their doors to come crashing in on them without notice by government controlled thugs brandishing weapons, dragging the inhabitants to undisclosed locations for interrogation, imprisonment, banishment or even death simply because they may have some point of contention with the narrative of the ruling class in their country. On the other...