FREEDOM/BONDAGE WHAT IS FREEDOM? WHAT IS BONDAGE? "Freedom is a debt we owe our children; left unpaid, this indebtedness can only result in bondage." What is Freedom? 1. Freedom is the parental right to keep your children in the home until they are at least 5 years of age. (When both parents must work, parents still retain the right to choose where their children will stay, without governmental intervention.) 2. Freedom is the right to discipline your preschool children as you feel best, both in the home, and through a "substitute parent" during the time both parents are at work when absolutely necessary* (Does your state al- ready dictate that babysitters or child care workers may not employ any type of spanking or hand slapping, even with the parent's permission?) 3. Freedom is the right to teach your children good moral values, with you retaining the right to instruct your children in what is "good" and what is "moral". 4. Freedom includes the parental authority to make decisions for your children, with this right surpassing your children's rights to decide how to behave. 5. Freedom is the right to choose what religious beliefs should and should not be taught to your children. What is Bondage? Bondage is the opposite of freedom. Could parents ever lose the above mentioned rights? Is the groundwork already being prepared to take away some or all of these freedoms? Don't you owe it to your children to find out? Have we ever, in a civilized society given to one person (the mother) the complete legal right to kill another (the baby) in order to solve that first person's personal problem? The U.S. Supreme Court has excluded an entire age group of humans from legal personhood and with it their right to life. They used as partial justification for allowing this killing, the argument that the unborn is not yet capable of "meaningful life," were not "persons in the whole sense." (Rose V. Wade). It is no coincidence that euthanasia is being recommended for those who no longer have "mean- ingful existence." How long will it be before other groups of humans will be defined out of legal existence when it has been decided that they too have become socially burdensome? SENIOR CITIZENS BEWARE MINORITY RACES BEWARE CRIPPLED CHILDREN BEWARE Once the decision has been made that all human life is no longer an unalienable right, but that some can be killed because they are a social burden, then the senile, the weak, the physically and mentally inadequate and perhaps someday even the politically troublesome are in danger. It did happen once before in this century you know. Remember Germany?
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