It seems that some of the smelly-looking, bearded people with weapons who demand the opening of the country think the assertion of personal demands using unmistakeable threats of violence is the same thing as freedom.
Freedom isn't the absence of rules. That's anarchy.
Freedom exists in the presence of rules. Rules made to secure the common good are some of these. Democracy remains the best known method of creating such rules. The testing of them is done through courts.
It just seems that in spite of America claiming to be the home of freedom, a lot of folks have no idea what it is. They presume that nothing but unrestrained personal "rights" are somehow the only means to understand the definition of freedom. As if they don't notice that those rights are revealed/conferred and protected through a constitution and legal system which are common goods. "We the people". First words.
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