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The other thing I wanted to talk about is the phrase "Freedom Isn't Free."

I first became aware of this statement right after 9-11 when a printmaking classmate made a big print of a person in a turban with "FREEDOM ISN'T FREE" under it. (He did this without kitsch value, he would have made a Crying Eagle if he had known how to transfer the image to a silkscreen.)

Anyhow, at the time, I thought it was silly and would go away, but like a lot of sayings that make no sense, it seems to have a certain staying power.

Does this strike anyone as particularly Orwellian? Defining something with a condition that is directly its opposite? Seems like passing off irony as truth to me. I advise adherents of this saying to examine a dictionary Re: the terms "Freedom" and "Free", and alter their pithy statements accordingly. "The cost of preserving a puppet banana republic democracy in a state where an attempt to create a puppet banana republic dictatorship has failed, is 2000 American lives and counting," would work, but it would be hard to put on a bumper sticker. Perhaps, "SUV's Aren't Free." Or even "Hamburgers Aren't Ham."

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