A History of Freedom Fighters is Revealed to Many People. Activism Gives the Common Masses a Way to Rise Up & Become Powerful so Righteous Rule Can be Restored.

A history of freedom fighters is used for those engaged in an armed struggle.

The main goal is to achieve freedom for themselves or obtain freedom for others. Those willing to engage in battle to gain freedom are heros.

Even though the literal meaning of the words could include anyone who fights for the cause of freedom, a history of freedom fighters as a phrase shows that the term is commonly restricted to those who are actively involved in an armed rebellion.

However, a person who is campaigning for freedom through peaceful means may still be classed as a freedom fighter, though they are usually called political activists.

In India, Freedom Fighter is a term very popularly used for those who followed Mahatma Gandhi in the Indian Independence movement against British rule, which was waged without the use of violence.

The organizations of those freedom fighters in India are called Freedom Fighter’s Association and they are well recognized and respected countrywide.

People who call themselves, or are considered by their supporters, as freedom fighters are sometimes called assassins, rebels or terrorists by others.

During the Cold War, the term freedom fighter was used by the United States and other Western Bloc countries to describe rebel groups that they backed which were in almost all cases terrorists seeking to overthrow stable governments.

This was the case with the brutal Contras in Nicaragua and the butchers of UNITA in Angola.

Freedom Fighter or Terrorist?

Even though the label freedom fighter is associated with specific groups, freedom fighters are often seen as people who are using physical force in order to cause a change in the political and/or social order.

A history of freedom fighters tells us that this is usually done in response to oppression or perceived oppression by an internal or external body.

A freedom fighter is different from a mercenary as they gain no direct material benefit from being involved in a conflict.

They are not considered mercenaries under the Geneva Convention, so they are protected by it. Mercenaries and terrorists are not protected under the Geneva Convention, and they can be tried as criminals.

That is the irony and contradiction of most of the so called freedom fighters that the United States tends to fund. Time and again, their ranks have been filled with mercenaries.

In the Beginning

From the beginning, America has a history of freedom fighters, most notably during the American Revolution when all they wanted was freedom from oppression, just as many freedom fighters do today.

On March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks and a noisy group of Boston Patriots were jeering and harassing a mass of British Redcoats who were sent from England to keep the American colonists in check.

These freedom fighters were a mixed group of disgruntled sailors, dock workers, servants and apprentices who were tired of the steady appearance of the British soldiers amongst them.

Ideas of liberty were being thoroughly discussed by most colonists and Attucks’ martyrdom is said to have acted as a catalyst for the American colonists’ eventual war for liberty and freedom from British rule.

Double Speak

Today the American supported freedom fighters are anyone who will seek the overthrow of sovereign governments that refuse to be puppets to U.S. based big capital and their quest for control of profitable resources at any cost.

It is a crude form of doublespeak in which terrorists are called freedom fighters and democratically elected, and progressive regimes are demonized for not submitting themselves to the whim of U.S. based profiteers.