Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity As Demonstrated by the French This Week
Since the second largest demographic for healthpolicymaven readers hail from the beautiful country of France, this column acknowledges their January 8th loss, due to the terrorist acts of a few deranged Muslims. Radical Muslims persist in trying unsuccessfully to unravel democratic nations. United States citizens have marveled at the French demonstrations drawing 10,000 people against this senseless violence. The fact so many French people were willing to risk their lives for the sake of a free press underscores one of the fundamental principles of liberty, which is our right to gather and demonstrate, and the right to a free press. It is the latter of these principles which our forefathers held so dear which seems so fragile in these turbulent times. Though in the United States the loss of freedom in our press is due to corporate tyranny and public apathy as opposed to violence. Please understand the United States was appalled at the terrorism in Paris, but we are a country numbed by ...