Let Freedom Ring!

Today I have to bow to the master, Orrin's post the other day inspired some replies I just have to bring to light. I make available to my readers links to both Chris Brady, and Orrin Woodward's post over on the right>>>>>. Please take advantage and read them as they are both ranked in the top 20 worldwide as leadership guru's. Their teachings inspire international comments like I've posted below. From Orrin's post 3/25 titled; America We Lost- Dr. Mario Pei
Reply;

Orrin,
Congratulations to another fantastic blog. I think I lot of people who came to America from Eastern Europe or from other countries for freedom know exactly what your blog is about. It is unfortunate that not enough people have noticed the scary trend. Fortunately there are people like you and others who did notice the change and bring it to people's attention. I was glad to read an interesting article today about how Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin pushed the Internet giant to take the risky step of abandoning its China-based search engine as that country’s efforts to censor the Web and suppress dissidents smacked of the “totalitarianism” of his youth in the Soviet Union."
The entire article is available at this website: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704266504575141064259998090.html

I really liked the last sentence of the "Childhood in the Soviet Union" section listed in Sergey's Wikipedia profile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
"At an interview in October, 2000, Brin said, "I know the hard times that my parents went through there, and am very thankful that I was brought to the States." A decade earlier, in the summer of 1990, a few weeks before his 17th birthday, his father led a group of gifted high school math students, including Sergey, on a two-week exchange program to the Soviet Union. "As Sergey recalls, the trip awakened his childhood fear of authority" and he remembers that his first "impulse on confronting Soviet oppression had been to throw pebbles at a police car." Malseed adds, "On the second day of the trip, while the group toured a sanitarium in the countryside near Moscow, Sergey took his father aside, looked him in the eye and said, 'Thank you for taking us all out of Russia.'"

I am really glad to see that successful people like Sergey can appreciate how much different his future could have been had his father not taken the huge step of leaving everything behind a taking his family to a new country for freedom.
Gyorgy Veszpremi

And then it was followed by this reminder......

Well said Orrin and Dr. Pei. However I must point out that merely being foreign born resident is not enough as you will see below. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Nigeria, I migrated to Canada as a teenager in 1988 along with my parents and siblings. At the time and well into the early 2000's I was naive enough to think that we lived in the free world. I was thankful for democracy and all the things the Canadian government was doing for its citizens. In my mind there was not a better place to be than in Canada. We had this view only because, on the surface, things were so much better in Canada than in Nigeria or Sri Lanka AND we were not sharp enough to observe, study and find out what was truly taking place. As my wife recently commented, we were at peace only because we were like the characters in Animal Farm by George Orwell….blindly following the story told by the pigs in charge. Yes how naive we were. Once we slapped our selves silly, read some books and looked around at some of the ridiculous things that were happening then we could see and understand how Canada was no different than Nigeria or Sri Lanka - subjects of the British Empire. I must point out that it was then that I understood that the United States of America is, dare I say was, the only remaining free country. I have since come to have a deep appreciation for the American people and their country. In conclusion, foreign-born or not, critical thinking and a questioning mind are essential in keeping America free from the British (Global) Empire.

Ameen

It's easy to see why Orrin's in the top 10 and won international fame. He sure leads people to thought! What a great reminder to not take our freedom for granted! If you've not read the post please take the time to absorb the ideas!

God Bless
Capt. Bill