Freedom Means Just This: No Police Interference

The "practical" definition of Freedom is what the title says: No Police Interference. This means all the citizens are free to engage in economic activity and, of course, the arts. The people enjoy Natural Liberty and a Natural Order prevails. Disruptions to this order, by enemies of this order, are to be handled by the police - and that means tackling "anti-socials." This is always done at the local level. This is what urban, local self-government is all about.

Thus, Freedom is not government. Freedom is not The State. Government is the negation of freedom. Its every act stems from coercion and compulsion - including its means of performing these acts, which is taxation.

Having said that, which is the "classical liberal" view from Adam Smith down to Ludwig von Mises, let us turn to those who established a centralised State in order to "command the economy." What can we say of that generation today except that they had NO IDEA as to what Freedom means. No idea at all. India's "tryst with destiny" never happened. August 15, 1947 was a false dawn. All our gods failed: Nehru, Gandhi, Socialism, Democracy... All we have today is Naked Tyranny.

We need to fight for freedom again.