4 Celebrated Freedoms That Now Require Permission or Privilege to EnjoyBy Isaac Davis Here are 4 celebrated, historical liberties that people have long enjoyed, yet are undergoing a dramatic metamorphosis in an evolving world. The idea that human beingsshould befreeto roam the earth without permission or threat is now dated. Prior to the 1930s you neednt have a drivers license to operate a motor vehicle or carriage in America. Traveling without a passport used to be commonplace as well. [B]efore 1915 His Majestys Government did not require a passport for departure, nor did any European state require one for admittance except the two notoriously backward and neurotic countries of Russia and the Ottoman Empire. [Source] Now,evenrecreational drivers are required to be commercially licensed, and in addition to a complex system of fees, fines, high-speed-chases and beat-downs, we are now watchingthe normalization of domestic checkpoints manned by armed and dangerous government employees. Sobriety checkpoints also known as DUI checkpoints are the most common roadblocks you might encounter. They function as a general purpose investigatory tactic where police can get a close look at passing motorists by detaining them briefly. A roadblock stop is quick, but it gives police a chance to check tags and licenses, while also giving officers a quick whiff of the drivers breath and a chance to peer into the vehicle for a moment. [Source] Living off the grid is the ultimate example of personal responsibility, but as government needs dependents in order to be relevant, the type of rugged, ingenious mind that once made America remarkable is being stamped out in a fog of rules, regulations, permits, codes and trade agreements.For those interested in cultivating true independence by homesteading or setting up alittle offgrid outpost somewhere, it is increasingly difficult and expensive to comply with the State. Look, if I want to build a yurt of rabbit skins and go to the bathroom in a compost pile, why is it any of the governments business? Bureaucrats bend over backwards to accredit, tax credit, and offer money to people wanting to build pig city-factories or bigger airports. But let a guy go to his woods, cut down some trees, and build himself a home, and a plethora of regulatory tyrants descend on the project to complicate, obfuscate, irritate, frustrate, and virtually terminate. I think its time to eradicate some of these laws and the piranhas who administer them. Joel Salatin In some areas, peoples veggie gardens are being ripped up by over-zealous code enforcers, senior citizens are being fined thousands of dollars for not cutting their grass on time, individual rainwater collection is being prosecuted, and police are being called in to enforce mandatory connection to public utilities. Supposedly one of the greatest rights bestowed upon Americans by the Constitution, increasingly, the right to speak your mind is under duress, by government, corporate policy makers, and a changing social climate. Sure, since the 80s weve been trained to acceptFree Speech Zones,where protesters could be shuffled out of sight and out of mind. Now, though, were entering an era of extreme political correctness and unabashed irrationality. People are increasingly unwilling to listen to what others have to say, and intolerance is being normalized under a cloak of phony diversity. Dont you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Orwells 1984 The way we communicate is rapidly changing, and corporations now have incredible power to shape our thoughts, as sites like Facebook have demonstrated. Our language can be molded and transformed by company policy, as forum rules and formats can change in accordance with investor motives. We no longer own our words or our conversations. As social pressure continues to build upon indoctrination, the ability of people to civilly discuss differences in opinions is more strained. Add to this the general dumbing down of everything, and the climate is one of highly vocal intolerance. The liberty to openly speak in our society is being tested by personal crassness as much as it is by law. Heres an example of the kind of behavior that is now acceptable when some are in the presence of ideas they are unwilling to tolerate: Human beings have always had a symbiotic relationship with food and with plants, and medicine was always something taken directly from natureandcombined with human intuition, wisdom and the intention to heal. The disruption ofthe balancebetween humans and nature, as initiated by consumer culture and corporate medicine, has taken a fundamental human right and is turningit into a privilege. READ:Americans Argue Over Puppets While Global Masters Meet in Secrecy The corporate overthrow of the concept of medicine, mass fear-hyping, and the war on drugs, are devastating to personal sovereignty. Mandatory vaccines, public water fluoridation, and the prohibition of plant medicines such as cannabis, ayahuasca and iboga, add up to a severely restricted perceptionof health and wellness, physically, mentally, and spiritually. If you alone do not own your body, then whoowns your body? These medicines heal the cultural malaises of apathy and distractedness by re-introducing mystery and magic into life, and by liberating ones consciousness from the confining prisons of the war on consciousness.They completely destroy the matrix of cultural programming, clearing space within the psyche for something new and positive to emerge. Dylan Charles Due to the inherent violence required to maintain the social-political order we have now, along with mass indoctrination of the public with extreme statist and corporatist ideologies, it is practically impossible for most people to imagine a world governed by voluntaryism, although its well-worth consideration for those enjoy the celebration of human liberty. If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of societyyou are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right. [Source] Read more articles from Isaac Davis. Isaac Davisis a staff writer for WakingTimes.com and OffgridOutpost.com Survival Tips blog. Heis an outspoken advocate of liberty andof a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficientto break free of the control matrix.Follow him on Facebook, here. Like Waking Times on Facebook. Follow Waking Times on Twitter. This article (4 Celebrated Freedoms that Now Require Permission or Privilege to Enjoy) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commonslicense with attribution to Isaac Davisand WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement. I used to hear the silver tongued windbag Michael Medved challenge boobus americanus over call in radio to be specific on just what freedoms we think weve lost to our oath violating Gov. Well done. Brilliant, and simple. The writer picked the same 4 freedoms I have talked about ceaselessly over the past 25 years. Gone. Gone, and no one seems to notice or care. So apathetic. Theres now an expression for it -wait for it-Intentionally Indifferent. Amazing. Americans have become so irresolutely indifferent to being free and having basic freedom. Not me, boy. Not me, girl. I want my freedoms, and I want them back. George Orwell (Eric Blair)s 1984 is the Playbook, the roadmap, and instead of standing together against Big Brother, the sheeple are just crowding in, ready to give up the only thing worth fighting for. Today we learn that the big, bad FBI have caved in to walking away from all of the violations of national security a former Secretary of State committed because even the FBI agree that some are Above the Law. The FBI today just agreed that the Elites arent governed by the same laws that apply to the rest of us. The FBI are for sale. Is it in the drinking water? Is the FBI drinking the same Kool Aid that all the fascist Politically Correct drink? The FBI set up and engineer the bad deeds of the easy to hoodwink, then walk away from doing something when it really makes a difference for national security because they were bought and paid for. You got away with it for now. In many states, the cops are coming in and forcing people off their own land. Dont think that it worked now and will continue to work. If the government can throw us off our land when we are harming no one and the taxes are current then we truly are nothing but involuntary servants to those running government. Fortunately in my case it is too politically risky for them to do that. Property rights do have big public support in our rural county. Its always about politics, not the law. Its just like when the first whiteman came to America and told the indigenous people, do it our way or we well wipe you out. Now theres a new whiteman in town and hes riding a Rothschild limo and telling the govt, do it our way or we will wipe you out. People need to open their eyes, but unfortunately I really feel its too late for Americans to turn the tide. I still choose my own medicine. I havent seen a doctor since the mid 90s and I will not, never, no how. You forgot the right to peaceably assemble (permits required for protest, violates 1st), right to keep and bear arms (almost 100% of the 50,000 or so gun laws violates shall not be infringed), 4th, 5th and 10th for all intents and purposes dont even exist anymore. 