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My father was executed by firing squad in 1961 for his efforts to bring freedom back to Cuba, away from communist tyranny. Linden Blue was in prison with him and has never forgotten. He is telling part the experience he shared with my father and relating it to the present-day disaster of socialist authoritarian governments throughout history. Over half a Century has passed, my father did not die in vain believing that Freedom was worthy of the ultimate sacrifice.

Martica D. Trueba, daughter of Domingo Trueba

Losing Freedom nails one of the major problems this country faces. Linden Blue takes his personal experience and those of his co-prisoners just prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion and shows how policy failures and missed opportunities throughout history have stifled freedom. As a senior executive of a leading technology company he suggests how and why the future can be much better.

The Honorable Daniel S. Goldin, longest serving NASA Administrator under three US Presidents

No one has contributed more to the nation's security, with less desire for notoriety, than Linden Blue. Now he brings his technological sophistication to bear on America's current collectivist, statist temptations. This is a clarion call for fidelity to the rights-based individualism, and the spontaneous order of a market society, that have made America preeminent.

George F. Will, Author of The Conservative Sensibility

Linden Blue is one of America's most amazing and important entrepreneurs. In Losing Freedom he skillfully interweaves the riveting story of his capture and imprisonment in Castro's Cuba in 1961, with a discussion of the threats that human freedom faces today and in the future. The result is a powerful document that is well worth reading, especially by young people, and which will provoke debate for a long time to come.

Arthur Herman, Hudson Institute, author of Freedom's Forge

America's governmental system as framed by our founders drew on customs and practices from the classical world. The framers were inspired by perceived Greek and Roman political successes, along with Enlightenment ideas and English common law, and then they incorporated all of these beliefs into our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Their first principles continue to guide Americans in addressing the many problems of ensuring prosperity and peace in a rapidly changing worldeven as classical freedom remains our most cherished and greatest asset. Linden Blue's engaging Losing Freedom will inspire young people both to understand and to cherish our most exceptional founding and its originsa much needed reminder of what we must preserve in an age of increasing amnesia about who we were and must continue to be.

Victor Davis Hanson, Senior fellow, Hoover Institution and author The Second World Wars

Linden Blue is a highly regarded leader in aerospace technology and business development. As COO of Learjet he initiated development of the first commercial aircraft with winglets. More recently, as vice chairman of General Atomics, he was involved in development of the Predator drone which has revolutionized modern military combat. Losing Freedom is full of insights and is a cautionary tale about public policy that can spell the difference between peace and conflict, prosperity and privation.

Norman R. Augustine, Retired Chairman & CEO, Lockheed Martin Corp.

A deeply personal account, from a world-class entrepreneur, of the miracle that is modern prosperity and civil peace. As Linden Blue explains, that miracle rests on the foundations of the rule of law and commerce built by the west.

Heather Mac Donald, Manhattan Institute, author of The War on Cops

Palmetto Publishing Group

Charleston, SC

Losing Freedom

Copyright 2019 by Linden S. Blue

All rights reserved

No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted in any form by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy,
recording, or otherexcept for brief quotations in printed reviews, without
prior permission of the author.

First Edition

Printed in the United States

ISBN-13: 978-1-64111-631-2

ISBN-10: 1-64111-631-5

To Domingo Trueba and ongo Puig, their families,
and all those in Cuba and elsewhere in the world
who are fighting against tyrannyin all its forms

Let Freedom Ring

(see my letter to Domingo Trueba's wife, October, 1961, page 168)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE and HISTORICAL CONTEXT

INTRODUCTION

FREEDOM OR SOCIALISM?

Why you can't have both, and what drives the uninformed attraction to socialism?

AMillennials and the More Generous Safety Net

BThe Rise of Democratic Socialism

CThe Hollywood Fantasy

DHow Socialism Leads to Loss of Freedom

EThe Slow Drift Away From Freedom

FThere is No Both

GSocialism and the Assault on Free Speech

HLies and the Cycles of History

2. WHAT CICERO KNEW

Two thousand years of failed socialism

ACicero was more prescient than he knew

BCry for Me, Argentina

CCrisis in Venezuela

DThe Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

EThe Fall of Greece

FIn the Land of Mandela

GCicero and the Inevitable Socialist Destination

3. HOW NOT TO HAVE A REVOLUTION

The Failure of Cuban Communism

ARevolution and Repression

BThe Ex-Patriots Regroup: The Bay of Pigs

CThe Cuban Missile Crisis

DKhrushchev Blinks

EA Cuban Connection to the JFK Assassination?

FA World of Challenges

GCuba Today

HCubaU.S. Relations

IThe CubaU.S. Risk

JCuba's Uncertain Future

4. SWEDEN'S DECLINING FOUNDATION

The Myth Of Swedish Socialism

AWhen Capitalism was King

BThe Capitalist Trust Fund

CDoes the Nordic Model Transfer?

DSwedish Socialism in Decline

EFailing to Compete

FA Changing Sweden

GThe Impact of Immigration

5. DID ATHENS GET IT RIGHT?

Freedom, free enterprise, and the origins of democracy

AFrom Rome with Love: Individual Freedom Emerges

BThe Debt We Owe The Brits: Magna Carta and Common Law

CA Country Founded on Ideals: The Operating System of the United States of America

DA Constitutional Republic Is The Best System

E240 Years and Counting

FProperty Rights are a Hallmark of a Free Society.

GAmericans experience the Soviet Union

HHow Much Government is Enough?

6. THERE IS NO THIRD WAY

Why Free Enterprise Capitalism Works Better Than Any Other System

AWhat Drives Progress

BA World Without Corporations

CCompetition as the Great Stimulator of Progress

DCreative Destruction

EWhich Road: Serfdom or Prosperity?

FWhy Doesn't Free Enterprise Do Well in Popularity Polls?

GThe Challenge: understanding and preserving freedom

7. CHOOSING FREEDOM

America at the Crossroads

AThe Power of Choice

BThe Road of No Return

CThe Rising Tide of Freedom

APPENDIX

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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