the true meaning of freedom

People are always asking what freedom is and they are given different meanings and ideas. The word freedom means the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action. There are multiple ways to define the word freedom and it depends on who you ask and their view on the word. The majority of the people will say that freedom is not free but others will say that it is. The meaning of freedom needs to be revised because it needs to have a concrete meaning that is not open for debate. In America, the word has a different meaning than it does in the world.
The meaning of freedom is that of the right to do what one wants without much constriction in doing it. Freedom in the United States means that you have the right to certain things such as the right to bear arms and to speech. According George Lakoff of the Boston globe the word freedom has split the American people since the American civil war. In the U.S, the people have the right of due process and the prisoners in Cuba are currently being held without due process. This is the major example in America where the word freedom is in question, the freedom of the prisoners are taken away when they should have them. The prisoners don’t have them cause they had committed crimes but that doesn’t make it right to take away their freedom because of that. The people are given the freedom to speech and the government has the right to monitor what they say which is a breach of their freedom and rights. President George W Bush signed the patriot act that gave the NSA the right to wiretap the people of the United States. Freedom should mean the right to do what they want even if they had committed a crime against the country or to have their lives watched by the government.
The word freedom in the world has a different meaning when it comes to the world. In the world, the meaning of freedom is that the people have an individual right to do a certain action or expression without the fear of the government to suppress it. In most countries, the citizens have the basic rights such as the right to speech and religion. Other countries that have leaders that control the freedoms of the people have that they lead. The Chinese leader controls the number of children that families are allowed to have which should be a freedom that everyone else has. This means that the people should have the freedoms that other people in the world has.
This difference of freedoms warrants the need to redefine the meaning of the freedom. The true meaning of freedom should mean being able to make choices and perform an action of your own choosing. This meaning has a general meaning of the word that makes sense of the word freedom because it leaves out the role of the government. This definition is better than the one that is given in Webster dictionary because it makes it easier to understand the meaning of the word than give more word that you would have to look up just to understand.