If you are punished for exercising a freedom, you are not free.
You are a slave to the incompetent government.
Now the" house slaves" (those living at others expense, i.e. Moochers, leaches, etc.) claim the system is the best to be hoped for, since they have it relatively well.
But for us slaves forced to work the fields for others, we look for the chariot to swing low, & carry us back to that land of liberty.