Freedom is not free, as many veterans have said. I never understood what that meant except superficially. But you don’t get freedom back so easily if you yourself committed massive crimes. Freedom is not free. You don’t get to take away the freedom of others and enjoy it, without penalty for yourselves. The people you harmed, the parents of the children you burned — they are coming. Not violently, not vengefully, but with the righteous sword of justice in hand. Don’t rest too easy, leaders who did wrong, in this bright American sunlight. You don’t get America back as if nothing had happened.
Naomi Rebekah Wolf, described by Wikipedia as “an American feminist author, journalist, and conspiracy theorist,” in Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age (2023).
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