Freedom is one of those words that is thrown around by everyone, even those who spend most of their lives trying to restrict yours. Freedom means different things to different people. The men who started this country were willing to risk their lives over an unfair tax of 2%. Maybe they realized that 2% was just the proverbial camel's nose under the tent. But the Founders demanded liberty, and were willing to fight to preserve their right to be free, “to be left alone”, not to be forced to pay for something that they didn't want or weren't getting. So when I think about freedom, I think about the outright LIE that we keep being told, that “we live in the freest nation on earth.” It makes me angry and sick. We do NOT live in the freest nation on earth. We live in what USED TO BE a country that offered the greatest opportunities on earth. How we just live with legalize plunder from a county government that will use force to steal from its citizens. What bothers me more than anything else, is that government believes that it is entitled to deny me my most basic rights. In my quest for freedom, I think I have finally figured out what freedom means to me. Freedom is self-sufficiency, self-governance. The freedom to exercise all of my basic human rights, without interference. To provide my family with a place to live without having to defend it from the thieves that control are government.