Saturday, January 5, 2013

Stop Talking About Freedom and Start Protecting It

This year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, California featured the Department of Defense’s “Freedom Isn’t Free” float. While nothing is close to free when DOD is involved—the B-2 bomber that made a fly-by as parade-goers cheered cost more than twice its weight in gold—the rose- and carnation-covered replica of the Korean War Veterans Memorial got me thinking about the state of America’s freedoms as we ring in the New Year.

Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/04/stop-talking-about-freedom-and-start-pro

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