Title One: There Will Be Justice! But Not At The Expense of Liberty Title Two: Let Freedom Ring and Ring! But Let Justice Be The Ringer of That Sweet Bell of Liberty

I gave this blog two titles. But the message is the same. Depending on who you are and your personal beliefs, you may love one titles and hate or fear the other, but again it's the same word. Those who really just loves this country and knows America and our founding principles, should love both. This is my hope. There must be Liberty AND Justice for all. The two; Liberty and Justice, cooperate together. That combination is what makes all of America, America. I can't say it enough.

God Bless America indeed; land of the free and home of the brave. I've said it before, there's no need to be brave, if no one can be free. And the brave should only bravely fight for and seek justice when there is none. America's entire foundation is built on these principles.

In the current "Government verses Privacy" scandals, especially with the NSA and their use of private companies like Verizon to get data, I get it.  I get every complaint and every angle; both sides.

Shout out to Google who has written a letter to the government, to not absolutely deny all requests, but has asked for permission to be transparent with their customers whenever the government asks for the publics private information, through their data base, and they comply. Both Face Book and Yahoo immediately followed suit with similar requests. That is the right thing to do.

Yes. Government should be much more transparent and open when possible. There is a valid and right time to be secretive, work behind closed doors and be silent also, less our enemies or fools hear what they should not.  And this is why the government is calling for the prosecution of the NSA "Prism" Program whistle blower. He may seem like a hero to some, but he may have opened up all of America to more danger, too. What good organization does not work in some secrecy, and creates a system of tiers where certain information is more secure and has less access to, than other information. Most of us run our very homes this way. 

To be totally transparent would mean we, America, is now either a pure democracy or socialist, and we are neither. We are a Republic that elects its representatives democratically. But in order to have fair, well informed voters that will put the right people in office, clearly we need to know certain things.

So, we have the First Amendment and freedom of the press and freedom of speech. We have things like the Freedom of Information Act. But also, we have things that at least for certain periods of time, that should be kept private in order for government to process the information and act appropriately, especially in the cases involving National Security.

Taking it all in, it all boils down to Trust and Integrity and Honor on every one's part, and an understanding about why these are necessary. "We The People" must begin to take responsibility for not factoring in all and being knowledgeable. We have tended of late to only vote ideology,, and that has been shown to be a grave error.

Power is still to the people. Let us take it seriously and be responsible.

I do not know how I stand totally on these particular instances and events. I know it seems to be well reported, but there is much we still do not know yet.  Motives especially are not yet clear.  Too much Liberty equals anarchy. No Liberty is equivalent to jail and prison.  Neither of the extremes is America. Let us see the whole matter. Liberty, yes! But always tempered with Justice. We all know by way of local, smaller criminal and civil matters, that in the process of actualizing and concluding Justice, in some of the stages of the process, there may be involved some kind of taking of freedoms, such as an initial arrest, or a trial where no bail is set for the accused. But there are rules for all.

God Bless America. Let us continue to see and evaluate all perspectives always and pertaining only to the specific matter, and not ideology or other instances just to make a case whereas many have already decreed guilt. Yet another American value; innocent until proven guilty. Let's get the facts and go from there.

Yulanda K.

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