As freedoms are compromised and even eliminated, those who desire freedom act to offset the depredations imposed upon them. Capital, both human and wealth, attempt to right the wrongs imposed. Once that alternative is seen as fruitless, both will flee.As Joel Bowman describes it: Perhaps it is useful here to consider freedom as a concept, not an institution or a political or geographical location. Certainly one cannot point to freedom on a map, nor is it defined - regardless of laws attempting to render it otherwise - by the color of one's passport or skin. It resides neither in the wooden speeches of politicians nor in the empty promises of their sophistry, where it is prone to being debased, corrupted and molested. Instead, it lives and thrives in the impenetrable safekeeping of those who seek to achieve it. As such, it is only natural that the torchbearers of mankind's greatest attribute should seek a home in which they can live their lives unencumbered by the coercion of...(Read Full Post)