Spero Consulting

We con­cluded last Wednesday’s Thanks­giv­ing post with:

So among the many things that we are thank­ful for this year, we do thank God that we live in a coun­try where we can freely and harshly crit­i­cize our elected and appointed offi­cials. That is not the case in much of the world: whether mea­sured by pop­u­la­tion or land mass. (So we pray for indi­vid­u­als in those coun­tries that they may one day live in the same free­dom that we enjoy.)

On Sat­ur­day, The Wall Street Jour­nal posted an edi­to­r­ial, Sin­ga­pore Strikes Again, about its con­tin­u­ing cen­sor­ship and legal prob­lems with the gov­ern­ment of that small nation-​state, and today’s edi­tion reports about a Lat­vian econ­o­mist, Dmitrijs Smirnovs, who was detained and ques­tioned for two days by his own gov­ern­ment because he spoke pes­simisti­cally about the future of Latvia’s banks and its currency.

So, while it is unfor­tu­nate that the turkey and cran­berry sauce are gone, but we remain grate­ful for the Chairman’s excel­lent, left-​over shiitake-​mushroom stuff­ing. How­ever, we’re espe­cially grate­ful for being born and liv­ing in the land of the free; that makes it much eas­ier for it to be the home of the brave, too.

Say a prayer for Mr. Smirnovs that he and his fel­low Lat­vian cit­i­zens may one day enjoy the free­doms that we often take for granted.