Watching the massive protests spring up across the entire world right now brings to mind a quote I read: “You can vote your way into communism, but eventually, your grandkids will have to shoot their way out.”
I learned about the truth behind that quote exactly three years ago, while I was doing on-the-ground reporting in Hong Kong. Back then, my team and I were running around the city day and night, following the freedom protests springing up across the whole island, fighting back against the encroachment of the Chinese Communist Party.
And it was during my time covering those protests that my love for the freedoms that we take for granted here in America was reignited—the sacrifices that were made throughout history, as well as the lives that were lost by American patriots, to ensure that we have the right to free speech, the right to freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to voice our dissent….