The Paradox Involving Government "Restricting" Individual Freedoms

Let's be honest, government is invovled in many aspects of our lives and very much so involved when it comes to globalization. Many condemn government action in the name of "restriction" of individual liberties. These people would be shocked if I told them that their liberties rest in their own hands, not the governmnet. Let me explain. To begin, it is important to know that I believe government action acts as a harbor to freedoms and as a fundamental key in establishing and maintaining law and order within country. It is true that when a lack of regulation is prevalent, chaos reigns. Iraq provides a good example of this: because of a lack of consented, governmental regulation, competing forces resulted in wars fought and lives lost. Contrastingly, let's take for example a country whose stable regulation encourages their citizens to actively participate in legislation. The exercise of their speech then acts as an avenue to accurate representation, while its inactivity results in their being bound to laws for which they had no say in (because they chose not to). In other words, it is not government action which inhibits individual freedoms, but rather a citizen’s decision to not participate in this action. Ergo, individual liberties lie in the hands of citizens. Okay, well then how does government action act as a harbor to freedoms, you might ask? Simply put, governmnet action provides the necessary structure to exercise one's rights through the establishment of laws and consequences. Not only this, but it also provides protection to these rights through law enforcement. Now, I'm not naive enough to believe that government's role in all of this has never been blown out of proportion; certainly, it has in other countries and in the United States as well. All I'm saying is that the next time you go to complain about how governmnet is restricting your liberties, you better not also admit to having not voted in the most recent election.