Looking for Freedom and found it encased in concrete at the bottom of the ocean!

Ten months ago I came to this platform for one reason, to escape the tyranny and censorship of Facebook.  I came here because I found the Steem blockchain to be distributed, open source and decentralized.  There is no one single authority to shut me down or shut me up.  Nobody can stop me from posting to the blockchain.  If people don't like what I have to say, they are welcome to move on or mute me so that I don't show up on their screen.  If people do like my work, they upvote it, resteem and even comment.  I've done well despite my stance and confrontation of violence, abuse, etc.

Just over 24 hours ago Alex Jones Facebook, Youtube, Apple and Spotify accounts were taken down.  In March the same thing happened to Mike Adam's Natural News channels.  Many more have seen the ugly side of censorship and digital book burning at the hands of centralized corporate censorship.  The centralized governments of the world engage in similar tactics as they pass laws to shut people up, keep things secret and dumb people down.  

While I don't agree with Alex and many others, I must stand and defend their right to speak their mind.  The moment we take any step to shut somebody else down, freedom dies as we end up doing the same to us.  We start making rules to outline what is acceptable speech and before long it gets corrupted and only those in power dictate what is acceptable or not.  It has happened for thousands of years and we are witnessing it unfold today.  

But it is even more than free speech.  What about freedom of movement, to practice ones spiritual beliefs, to have access to land so that one can support themselves?  What about the freedom to have clean air to breath, clean water to drink and healthy food to eat?  As we move through the coming times, we are all going to be confronted with these questions as the violence, tyranny and wars continue to unfold.  

So where are we going to find freedom when all this shit is going on?  Encased in concrete at the bottom of the ocean!  I use that as symbol to express the type of work we need to go through to find it.  This is not something that you can just wave a wand and have it magically appear.  Freedom is going to require work.  A LOT OF WORK.  To be free requires that we allow others to be free as well, even if we don't like what they are doing at all.  

There are still limits though

For me to love my neighbour as myself, that requires that I love myself first.  I think I've done a fairly good job at accomplishing that goal.  That is why I've declared peace and work hard to live a life of non-violence.  I am also supposed to be a witness, but I cannot be a witness unless I testify.  So I will testify when ever I witness actions or behaviours that are not peaceful, loving and respectful.  I will stand up and testify if I see abuse, bullying, violence or tyranny.  Many people here have felt the sting of my rebuke and so too has many people who wear the masks of the state and corporate fictional constructs.  

But I refuse to engage in violence in order to force them to behave or change.  If I do that, then I'm no better than they are.  Freedom is going to require more than having an open source, distributed, decentralized blockchain to share ideas.  Freedom requires that we take those principles and apply it to our every day lives outside of the blockchain.  We need to find ways to implement freedom protocols in every aspect, no matter how small or how inconvenient it is.  

Freedom is not something that we can find or buy at the local convenience store.  It is not something that somebody else can give to you either.  Freedom requires work, searching, questioning, exploring, growing, healing and vigilance in order to find.  Keeping it may also require the same amount of work too.  Freedom could very well be as difficult as raising a concrete encased tomb from the depths of the ocean.  Even when we bring it to the surface, we still need to break it open.  Will it require boiling away the water, turning it all into Steem?  ;)  

No matter what we do, we really do need to be very careful on which tools we use. The model of tyranny has been growing around us for generations.  Over thousands of years, colonization has gripped the planet and despite our efforts, nobody is free.  The decolonization process is something that I've been talking about for ten months on this blockchain and for well over a decade elsewhere.  Take heed on my warnings.  If you ignore them, you will be next to find your content being wiped out on these centralized, corporate spy sites.  Big brother is taking the axe to any ideas that threaten his control, power and wealth.  If we are not careful, people will start to disappear or be killed.  Oh wait, that is already happening.  Hmmmm.  What are we going to do about it?  

 First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.  

Poem written by  Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). 

While I don't agree with everything that William (Bill) Cooper says, I agree with most of his views he expressed in this clip.  We had better listen.  He said this over twenty years ago and he is eerily prophetic!!!  Time for action is now.  Do yourself a favor and HEAR what he is saying.  Our freedom depends on it!!!

Yes, I am aware that this video is on YouTube.  Consider me using the tail of the beast to smack the beast around a bit.