Looks over 2015 in year 2016 for the Freedom

Year 2016, symbolized here, as a fragile hope
which can fly away, or not, towards better days
Paris and the surrounding area - 2003 - Num 6 Mpx - 10da_1995d -

Was it it year 2015 ?
A sky covered with black, sad shadows of the thought blacks,
with hatreds and with withdrawals of worried peoples for their status,
and in more for some, killed, massacred, terrorized...
Angleterre - 2005 - Num 6 Mpx - 10db_8778 -

Year 2015 which had begun in the pain,
but also in the big surge towards the proclamation of the liberties.
Draguignan - 2015 - Num 21 Mpx - 5d2f_1322 -

Because the freedom to think, to believe, to demonstrate,
is the privilege of all the democracies, real democracies for whom the Freedom is more than a word, but an major principle.
Paris - 2011 - Num 21 Mpx - 5d2c_1179 -

And when the freedom is threatened, stays the struggle,
the struggle which has to be the one of the very people,
and not imposed by the outside, as in Iraq or in Libya...
Riga - Latvia - 2009 - Num 21 Mpx - 5d2d2_3640 -

And the freedom does not have to remain a dream,
a principle in which we believe but which we let faint little by little.
Paris - 2001 - Num 3 Mpx - dscn0304 -

The freedom which it is necessary to wish for 2016,
as this genius at the top of the column of the Bastille,
has to stay this principle which dances in our lives,
in our Society, in our laws.
Paris - 2001 - Num 3 Mpx - dscn0308 -