Freedom. What a wonderful, patriotic and American-sounding word "freedom" is. Sadly, freedom is under attack in ways many of us never thought possible. As we assess this attack, however, we realize that this has been a long time coming. We as a nation have been surrendering our freedom for generations, perhaps without realizing it. The quickening pace of our downfall started with the permissiveness of the 60's--the free love and drug culture. It has evolved, changed and enlarged with each step of permissiveness: the fight to accept homosexual practices, divorce, substance abuse, women's lib, corruption in government, dishonest and unethical business practices. Each of these supposed "freedoms" have been exercised with increasing impunity and disastrous results. You see, freedom isn't free. Freedom without accountability is simply permissiveness and tears at the very fabric of our society. As our society has become more and more tolerant of those things t...