My 103rd LTTE printed today.."The Four Freedoms" to run on 9/11

[w8liftinglady]

http://thedailylight.com/articles/2007/09/10/dailylight/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter1.txt
To the Editor,

I am a BIG Norman Rockwell fan. I ran across his “Four Freedoms”series and it made me think of where our country has gone. Franklin D. Roosevelt gave an inspiring speech in 1941 in which he elaborated on “The Four Freedoms.” I will quote him:

“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace time life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.”

With the current trampling of our first and fourth amendment rights, the fall of the real estate market, the devaluation of the dollar, the rise of poverty and hunger in America and the world and the fear-mongering that perpetuates the War in Iraq and Afghanistan, I wonder where our Four Freedoms have gone.

Let’s make sure our next elected officials have their constituents’ interests as their primary focus and not the multi-national corporations that have taken over as the policy dictators.

Let’s take back our Four Freedoms.

[H2O Man]

1. Great!

Thank you for exercising the muscles of democracy -- the Bill of Rights!

[Fridays Child]

2. You are a LTTE writing machine and put the rest of us to shame.

You rock! :woohoo:

[zeemike]

3. It was a much different world then

The people of the time of Roosevelt actually believed those things were righteous and good.
So much different now with a cynical and Orwellian twist on the word freedom.

[HereSince1628]

4. GOP is trying to crush the 4th freedom of FDR by pushing fear.

I wasn't afraid until the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act passed with only one senator having read it.

Now I'm always afraid...of the Unitary Executive.

[madokie]

5. Great