Freedom-pretenders like to believe that freedom can exist in a vacuum, that their shallow and inconsistent definition of freedom is true and right. Their conception of freedom is dependent on a static, idealized vision of society which entails the unfreedom of Others. This should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that they betray the cause they purport to defend. They disingenuously invoke the word freedom for rhetorical effect and use it as a cudgel against those who reject their narrow, authoritarian worldview.

One either supports freedom, which entails autonomy, self-determination, and liberation for all individuals, or they advocate restraint and domination under a false flag. One who cherry-picks causes to support which guarantee their own myopic satisfaction while ignoring or contributing to the domination of countless others is no lover of freedom. They do violence to the ideal and work to strip it of its rich meaning. They call for oppression when it suits their proclivities or if one threatens their rigid, closed off view of “how the world should be.” They refer to their ability to restrict the autonomy of others through legal or extralegal force as “rights.” Many even masquerade as “rebels” but in all reality would have flown the empire-banner of the Loyalists in their beloved, mythologized war of “independence”.

No, the freedom-pretenders cannot lay claim and abuse such a meaningful principle, such a righteous cause, an arrow pointing us in the direction of a world where domination does not ooze from the pores of the very fabric of society.

No, we refuse to accept this deceitful claim and take back the true meaning of freedom from those who falsely profess to uphold it.