I read through a transcript of President Bush’s second inaugural address. It was entitled ‘There Is No Justice Without Freedom’. Good title. It even sounds really good—holding the reflection of that great American ideal of freedom. But I’m not sure it’s entirely true. I understand what he’s saying in the context of what he’s saying. But while it sounds really good and even bears some elements of truth, I do take issue with that premise.
There’s something really appealing about freedom that people automatically gravitate towards. It’s understandable. We automatically reject the notion of being bound by an oppressor. We fight for that freedom to be self-determined. But in the context of freedom, it appears that justice gets short shrift. Even in this title of the President’s inaugural address justice gets only secondary mention. While freedom has the advantage holding all the glitz and glamor of fame, justice is in the background holding it all together. So I’m going to make a bold move and, in opposition to the President’s inaugural address, I’m going to conversely state that ‘there is no freedom without justice’.
I was listening to someone talk about the importance of justice. He mentioned how in the United States we often like to talk about freedom, but we don’t talk as much about justice. But, he said, justice is actually more important than freedom. I had to say that I agreed with him after thinking about it, because without justice there is no ground on which freedom can reside. Freedom without justice is anarchy. If you look at any countries that have tried to have freedom without a just society you can easily see this is true. There is an automatic attitude of distrust amongst the citizens when there is no adherence to the rule of law. No one trusts anyone else because there is no guarantee that justice is done should they be wronged in some way. This makes it difficult to conduct business, economies suffer, and everyone keeps to themselves for fear of the negative elements of society. When you think about it, this isn’t a truly free society. For while they have embraced freedom, there is no justice underpinning that notion of freedom.
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If you think back to your school days, you remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance in class. This pledge goes as following: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” The last part of that, ‘…with liberty and justice for all’, states and confirms that those two notions have to go together. But it’s actually the justice that precludes the liberty and not the other way around. Maybe we need to give justice its proper due. As great as liberty and freedom are, those things can’t stand on their own without an immovable standard to uphold them—the standard of justice.