The Three Boxes of American Freedom

[JAS-SH]

I got a surprise this morning while doing a search that proves to me how the internet is being manipulated to change history.

I've been around for a long time, will be 70 in a couple of months. Early on I learned about "The Three Boxes of Freedom". To my understanding, those had always been three and in a specific order: 1) The Soap Box (Freedom of Speech), 2) The Ballot Box, (Right to elect our government) and 3) The Ammo Box (The Right to bear arms).

Well now there are a number of different "boxes"out there and some places like Wikipedia have four.

Now most all insert a Jury Box. They either add it making four boxes or replace the Soap Box. This smells of "Lawfare"...

How did you learn this and when?

 

[Kamerad]

Jury nullification.

 

[AmmoFort]

I heard it like you did probably as a late teen in the 90's. It was not 4 boxes.

ETA: I remember cartridge box, but same thing.

 

[Herb Stoner]

Never heard the ammo box before but it fits. I heard it as soap, ballot, jury.

 

[MadDuner]

I’ve always been under the impression that it was:
Soap Box
Ballot Box
Cartridge Box

 

[Hobo Hilton]

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Frederick Douglass on the Ballot Box, the Jury Box, and the Cartridge Box​

Found in: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: From 1817-1882

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, escaped in 1838, and became a leader in the movement for the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War ended, he continued to advocate for the political rights of American Blacks.

Frederick Douglass on the Ballot Box, the Jury Box, and the Cartridge Box | Online Library of Liberty

“From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman, until he should cease to be merely a freedman, and should become a citizen. I insisted that there was no [333] safety for him, nor for anybody else in America, outside the American Government: that to guard, protect, and...

oll.libertyfund.org

 

[stevieb92]

I'd say we are at the point where the ballot box has failed, the jury box has failed and there's only one box left.