Freedom can be interpreted in many different ways based on the person’s own experience and life circumstances , where a refugee would view it as the right to survive a war and be able to start new or the right to have a home and defend it regardless of who to pay the price to , and for a 20 something living in Dubai it would be the ability to express oneself ideas, believes, and mental or even sexual orientation without being harmed and to a 30 something American to express the latter without being judged!
The common thing about these three perspectives of freedom is that they are all as valuable to one as they are to another and that are usually worth fighting and dying for ( in their own way).
The vital point is whether a person is aware enough of their right to actually practice their basic human and citizenship rights granted by the flag of freedom, and to have enough understanding of the consequences if these rights are not practices often enough and correct enough!
In simple words. You cannot whine about a government you did not bother to elect, or were happily paid off to elect! And to call a free person as one it means being able to own, claim, practice rights and eventually have effect. In simple words again, you do not want to be electing the right person for the right reasons and yet to witness them get assassinated or worse corrupted. And in Another side of freedom is the one most common which is the mess leaded one, where those who think they are free claim their freedom and almost brag about it.
Simply put .. where the enemy is no longer the ignorance of the rights but the illusion of knowledge of them!