Analysis Of 'American Flag Stands For Tolerance'

People feel that their rights, freedoms, and choices are taken away from them. Passage 1, "American Flag Stands for Tolerance," and Passage 2 claim the different ways that people's rights can be infringed from them. Passage 1, "American Flag Stands for Tolerance," asserts direct ways that rights, freedom, and choices can be snatched. In the article it is stated that "each individual is to have the freedom to develop by his or her own lights, and not by the command of officialdom." Individuals should be able to live how they intent to instead of having the government decide how they should live. Furthermore why can people not stand up for their rights when "the flag stands for free expression of ideas, no matter how distastful?" People do not want other people interfering with how they want to live their lives. Having freedom snatched away can cause many individuals to do wrong things, such as burning the flag.
Incidentally, passage 2 mentions the indirect ways that people can take freedom without knowing they are.
In passsage 2, a guy named Sergei had to leave his family and move to an isolated place called Jaffa so that "Sergei can get his sleep, and get up when it's still dark. He can take his little boat out into the sea and fish until he's done fishing." He had to move away so he can make his own choices and not have others making his decisions. He moved so people "don't come around knocking... hard like that-rapping at his door." People should be allowed to sleep peacefullly without others constantly disturbing
them. Given these points, no one wants their rights, freed, and choices to be infringed from them, nor do they want any other individual to make their decisions for them. Passage 1 and 2 disclose the different ways people have their rights taken from them, and also why they feel that way.