Freedom Under Threat

A House With Rules

A nation is a house.

It has walls.

It has a foundation.

It has rules for the people who live inside it.

You don’t walk into another man’s house and start rearranging the furniture.

You don’t kick holes in the walls because you prefer a different design.

And you certainly don’t insult the roof that is sheltering you.

Yet that is what I see happening more and more.

People arriving in a place they did not build, protected by freedoms they did not fight for, standing under a flag they did not carry, and then demanding the whole structure change to match the world they left behind.

If the system you came from was so superior, why leave it?

Why abandon it for the very country you now claim is broken?

Freedom is a remarkable thing.

But freedom is not the same as entitlement.

A nation cannot survive if everyone who enters the house tries to tear out the foundation.

There is a reason a builder pours concrete first before the walls ever go up.

In this country, that foundation is shared values, responsibility, and respect for the structure that already exists.

Without that…

you don’t have a house.

You have chaos.

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Published by diestl

Freemason and father of two boys and a girl, living in Los Angeles, California. Emerson College Alumni always looking for a new adventure. Eight years of Catholic school, now Taoist leaning trying to be Zen in my journey of life.

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