Freedom is an American idea

Or so the left tells us. I happen to think that freedom is what every heart yearns for, and that repression of freedom is evil. It seems that the President of the Czech Republic sees it the same way.

• "Some of us are afraid to celebrate (freedom) because we see certain other tendencies in the world around us," Vaclav Klaus said to some 250 members of the Fraser Institute during a luncheon at the Hyatt Regency.

  "To raise the issue of the lack of freedom is perhaps going against the wind ... perhaps politically incorrect."

Perhaps having lived in a country under communist rule for years has given Vaclav Klaus a better understanding of the precious nature of freedom than the modern American leftist who seems totally unwilling to fight for freedom and doesn't understand why anybody would be willing to die to preserve freedom.