Freedom Around the World: Being Destroyed One Act at a Time

Most of news we receive is good, right? Like how we win, what we’re doing is right and that it is best. Well, the news that you receive is only mostly true. What if most of the news received was only because a misguided view or someone wants it to be good, only positive. This often leads to unnoticed chaos and destruction of freedoms and rights when there really should not be. These views go unanswered because they were or are deemed the “right” action. Due to these misguided views, the freedom and rights of others is taken away.

One example was the payback after the 9/11 attack. The photo (left) shows the aftermath of some of the attacks. America waged an illegal war on Afghanistan following the 9/11, under the view that an eye for an eye (in this case, innocent lives for innocent lives), was a good course of action. This picture demonstrates how a misguided view can take away freedom, in this case the right to life. During the attack, not only did the innocent people of Afghan, most of which were not involved with the government, lose their lives, but their entitlement to a house, a family, and even safety. The mortified people in the background mortified by the bodies of the children in the foreground is the best way to symbolize this because it shows the emotional and mental toll that losing things that are close to you can be. The depth in the picture also creates the contrast of upsetness and fear for those involved, when they were never meant to be. By launching an illegal war based on a misguided view, people lost the right to live.

Another example is in recent memory of the Syrian bombings. NATO launching bomb attacks on Syria, for the ISIS crisis. During this, immense property damage (shown right) has been the result of it . By being bombed, the Syrian people lost the freedom to living and the right to security. The picture shown here demonstrates this by focus through the contrast. The dark explosion in the middle of a light city. This attack, along the many others that have happened just like it, cause many innocent lives to be destroyed in the midst of a chaos that they have no part of. The contrasted focus symbolizes how bad things things can get with the metaphorical size with it. The size of the explosion caused the destruction of the target buildings and anything near it. The ones who witnessed this were also present during other major bomb strikes, causing many to flee their homes, as well as costing them their homes and loved ones if they were not quick enough. Mainly the U.S.A. and partially NATO are responsible for this as they think the solution to terrorism is to destroy innocent civilian’s livelihoods, just to take out what they believe are targets in an unwaged war. By doing this, the ones who survive these attacks seek for freedom in the government who will take away even more just because they can, and will just for supporters. By doing this, the freedom of living and the right to security of the Syrian people are taken.

A third example is a trip to the past in Tiananmen square, in 1989. The chinese government was committing atrocities throughout the country and one man (shown above) stood in front of the tanks that the government used to help this force be used. But since the incident, the chinese government has banned the search from all search engines in the hope to prevent the possibility that they might be overthrown or their might be a rebel uprising. By censoring this, they have the misguided view that covering up corruption is the way to prove that they are not corrupt and by doing so take away the people’s right to the truth, and the freedom of knowledge. The picture shown here represents great amounts of courage and the will to do what is right, even if it costs a lot to do it. By censoring one of the big points in their history, and what helped change the government, they also take away the right of honor to the rebel since he was willing to sacrifice himself for a new change. This is another act that causes freedom and rights to be taken away, since this also takes away the right to know. This pointless censorship is also taking away the government’s freedom to be honest with its people because they are lying and hiding a huge part of their history. By censoring their own history and corruption, the chinese government takes away the freedom of knowledge and the right to know and to the truth.


A final example of this is with the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that was implemented in March of 2015. The governor in Indiana agreed to pass this law, giving religions more freedom in the state, but by doing this gave religious groups the power to ban anyone that was of different sexual orientation. This photo (shown left) is of the protesters that were against the mistreatment and the misguided view that religion should have the power to exile those that were not deemed right. The sea of people represent those unhappy with the "hatred" that they received after the act was passed, causing them to lose the freedom of being able to work, live or even be in the same area as others because they were not seemed as equal. This misguided view causing this was because the religious groups thought that those or different orientation were not equal or properly human. This speaks a lot since similar views and things happened in Arkansas. By getting the power to do something wrong because of a wrong view, those of different orientation lost the freedom and the right to equality.

References

Bombing in syria [Photograph]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_iYQlMw0r0

NATO attack [Photograph]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/2014/03/bbc-lies-and-propaganda/

The unknown rebel [Photograph]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tank-man-what-happened-man-3644636

Indiana rfra [Photograph]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.indianapolismonthly.com/news-opinion/indiana-rfra-rally-photos/