If you were asked, "What is freedom?" Could you answer quickly and succinctly; with certainty?
This is a question I have wrestled with long and hard to answer; but as yet am not sure I could. Despite being, or perhaps because I was, born a U.S. citizen I found the question impossible to answer. More recently I came to know the reason was because I've never lived without my personal freedoms apparently intact and felt secure, free of threat from government interference in my personal, private home, life and affairs. As a result I could not imagine living under oppression or tyranny or in fear of my, our, government.
In retrospect, my belief of living in personal freedom without arbitrary government interference in my private affairs at home was an illusion. Later, after the intervention of a government agency in my home and families private affairs and lives without due process, at the expense of both mine and my families supposed constitutionally guaranteed protections and rights, my illusion was shattered. I no longer live without fear of arbitrary government interference in my private affairs at home. I no longer expect government to pursue due process of law or the benefit of trial, by jury; peers or otherwise.
Through that experience I learned first hand how our Federal, State, County and Municipal Governments deny the accused their constitutional rights. The manner in which citizens are detained, searched, charged, tried, convicted; sentenced and deprived of property, liberty, perhaps life; and, incarcerated, by our government is unconstitutional at best; oppressive at least. When real and personal property, fiscal assets are seized by government without due process, probable cause, physical evidence or grand jury criminal indictment the government has become criminal; tyrannical by definition.
The idea the described infringements of constitutionally guaranteed personal liberties might occur is, should be, appalling. Impeachment is required. When citizens are criminally tried, convicted and sentenced while their constitutionally guaranteed rights are denied for a crimes defined solely by definition of law, where no damage to anyone else's person or property is alleged or supported by fact damaged or obsconed with; the government, by historic definition, is oppressive and tyrannical; no longer a government of the people. Impeachment is required, by force of arms if necessary.