Whats with the "freedom isn't free" thing?

[Neoma]

As in we have to fight for our freedom (war) all the time...

[Initech]

1. I think it's from Team America

What would you do
If you were asked to give up your dreams for freedom
What would you do
If asked to make the ultimate sacrifice

Would you think about all them people
Who gave up everything they had
Would you think about all them war vets
And would you start to feel bad

Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill

Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee
And if you don't throw in your buck o' five
Who will?

What would you do
If someone told you to fight for freedom
Would you answer the call
Or run away like a little pussy
'Cuz the only reason that you're here
Is 'cause folks died for you in the past
So maybe now it's your turn
To die kicking some ass

Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill

Freedom isn't free
Now there's a hefty fuckin' fee
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?

You don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?
Oooh buck 'o five
Freedom costs a buck 'o five

[davepc]

2. It's from a Poem

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE

I watched the flag pass by one day
It fluttered in the breeze
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert,
He'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom is not free.

I heard the sound of "Taps" one night,
When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times
That "Taps" had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea,
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom is not free.



--

I've seen it atributed to both Author Unknown and one
Cadet Major Kelly Strong
Air Force Junior ROTC
Homestead Senior High School
Homestead, FL, 1988

*shrug*

[expatriot]

3. Freedom isn't free... you have to work hard for it....

it is hard work being true to your duties as citizen... informing yourself of the issues, being an activist, volunteering, etc. but the conservative ideology likes to distance the average citizen from the idea of ultimate citizenship and, instead, replace it with some far-removed mythology of the the warrior-estate... as if the fight for freedom is on distant battle fields and not a constant, daily fight waged here at home by average citizens coming together and doing something historic.

[LastKnight]

4. its not free, but you dont have to constantly fight for it.

ours is bought and paid for in the blood of our fore fathers. so why are we spending our blood to hand it to iraq free? how come the bush bumpersticker bearing yellow-ribboners cant anwser that?

iraq threatens our freedom as much as vietnam did, and we fucked up there and we were doin fine until bush came along.

[Catholic Sensation]

5. well there's a hefty fuckin fee

and if you don't chip in your buck oh five, who will?

[Robeson]

6. You live in a militaristic society. Have you not figured that out yet?

[hfojvt]

7. of course, like anything else

if you have the right connections, you can eat for free and get somebody else to pay. You work, I eat.
If it was not for Reagan's decisive action, we would all be speaking Grenadese today. And today we have soldiers bravely defending us from Saddam's nukular weapons, I mean spreading democracy so we do not have horrible terrorist attacks that add as many as fifty casualties to the 150 who died in car accidents today and the 1400 who died of heart disease today. And I do my part too - I know where my duck tape is.

[NMMNG]

8. Just stupid freeper speak

An inane phrase they can repeat to make themselves feel important and justify constant warfare (hence the need for our tax money to be funnelled to the war machine forevermore).

:eyes:


It's like that bully who lets you give him your lunch money for the "freedom" of not getting beat up every day. "Freedom isn't free dude".

[vi5]

9. Oh how I love when people pull that line out....

..and I ask them exactly how they pay for it if it isn't free. They usually don't want to pay higher taxes and they don't want to join the military. So what price do they exactly pay for this item that isn't free? They usually do not have an answer.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Song from "Up With People", ca. 1970s

(Chorus)
Freedom isn't free!
Freedom isn't free!
You have to pay the price.
You have to sacrifice
For your liberty!