Be Thankful For Our... Comforts?

I recently decided that if I hear another Christian claim we have so many freedoms in this country I'm going to have to address this in a post.  It just happened last night.

So here it is: Unfortunately Christians confuse "comfort" with "freedom."

Maintaining vehicles, organized sports for the kids, innumerable shopping options, decorating our houses, indulging in favorite foods, 500 TV channels to choose from, access to our favorite over-priced coffee, going to the game, etc. has nothing to do with "freedom." These are all "comforts" we experience as long as we regularly surrender our wealth in the form of "taxes" or fines to avoid being subject to violence and being placed in cages by people in official looking costumes.

I suspect this sounds foreign to many.  Ask Mariza Reulas of what I'm referring to or a myriad of others who have tried to avoid the following forms of expropriation (or violations of our rights) and are now suffering for it:

Purchase of a permit, license or tax when fishing or hunting, operating as a beautician, operating a trash service or nursery, conducting business as a realtor, day care provider, electrician, taxi or dog groomer, maintaining an elevator, selling eggs or milk to the public, making jam in your kitchen and selling it, building a house, paying a cellular, water, electricity, trash or any bill, etc., etc., etc.

Securing a permit for a garage sale or your kid's lemonade stand, purchasing gubmit mandated health care, paying the exorbitant "fees" for developing a medicinal product or brewing and selling beer.

Collecting the mandated tribute from customers you sell to (aka "sales taxes") or disclosing on a form how much you've paid them.

Paying the gubmit thousands of dollars every time you purchase a new or used car or pay for the annual stickers and "registrations."

Paying real estate "taxes" (note that no one owns their home, they rent it from local bureaucrats) which fund the indoctrination of children in the precepts of statism, socialism, amoral and abnormal sexual behaviors, Islam and also promulgates acceptance of the aforementioned examples of theft.

Or, simply do one of the following:

Assert the fourth amendment at the airport.

Don't wear a seat belt or exceed posted speed limits, or remove components of your emission system so you pollute less by burning less fuel.

Drive a car without the required papers and mandated insurance. (Imagine what our founders would have thought of being forced to maintain "papers" in order to leave your home and run errands).

I am not suggesting that anyone do these things, I'm simply offering clarification - .yearly paying tens of thousands in protection money to keep yourself out of a cage in order to fund things that are antithetical to a healthy society, or so politicians can buy votes with social programs, or for bureaucrats to expand their power in exchange for enjoying experiences or pursuits that are basic to human existence is... slavery.