Liberty Matters: The Indicators of Freedom's Decline Book II of The SIGMA Directive Series A recovered intelligence dossier the public was never meant to see. A classified file escapes containment. No author. No timestamp. No chain-of-custody. Just a stark header from the North American Security Directorate - SIGMA Division... and forty-two indicators charting the quiet unraveling of liberty across the continent. The document was intended for negotiators preparing for a high-pressure USMCA review. Instead, it has surfaced here, stripped of redactions and unblurred by political handlers. Liberty doesn't fall in a thunderclap. It decays in procedures, incentives, and silences. Inside Liberty Matters, readers confront the raw assessment government leaders never planned to release. Each indicator reveals a different fracture point: captured media ecosystems, speech-regulation architectures, runaway bureaucratic power, weaponized energy policy, labor rigidity, digital control mechanisms, surveillance creep, and the ideological drift reshaping institutions across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This is not the polished summary meant for public reassurance. It's the disassembled analysis - pulled from briefing packets, incomplete metadata trails, and leaked SIGMA DELTA C-22 fragments - reassembled into one unauthorized dossier. Together, they form a single conclusion: the continent is moving through a tightening corridor where liberty becomes less a foundational principle and more a contested resource. Liberty Matters reads like a forensic map of how free societies fracture when no one is paying attention. It exposes the structural vulnerabilities accumulating beneath the political noise: centralized media incentives, administrative overreach, digital-speech choke points, rising regulatory asymmetry, union-dominated governance, economic drag, ideological compliance systems, and the quiet normalization of control as "protection." Through 42 hard-edged indicators, the dossier traces a continental architecture under strain - institutions bending under pressure, alliances quietly realigning, and public trust dissolving without headlines to mark the shift. For readers of political thrillers, speculative intelligence fiction, and near-future geopolitical realism, Liberty Matters is a rare hybrid: part leaked report, part continental autopsy, part warning signal. It continues the universe launched in Liberty Talks, expanding the SIGMA Directive storyline with the kind of chilling clarity only a "found document" can deliver. You were never supposed to see this file. But now that you have... you can't unknow what's inside.