Since When does Freedom come with a Permission Slip?

  Is freedom a right of first possession? Do the first people in get it, and anyone who comes after must ask for permission to have a share?
   Is that the way freedom is administered in the land of the free? We were here first. We were born here. Now, if anyone else comes, they must seek our approval. Their admittance is up to us.
  Freedom: If you get to it first, you can have it. If you don't, ask for permission and you can still have it -- if they let you.
  Since when does freedom come with a permission slip? Since when does one person have to ask another for the right to be free?
   If freedom can be given, it can be taken. The power to give is the power to take. And, so it is, we suppose we have both the right to grant them to stay, and the right to send them away. Like a king, standing with subjects before him, we either allow their presence or banish them.
   There are a lot of rights that go into freedom, but the right to take away another person's rights is not one of them. Taking away another person's freedom is not a right we have.