Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 19. 2010

July 4th is Independence Day, and informed Americans recognize September 17 as Constitution Day. A growing number of Americans commemorate April 19 as Patriots Day ? not in memory of the 1993 federal massacre of the Branch Davidians near Waco, or the horrific Oklahoma City bombing, but because of the battles at Lexington and Concord that began our War for Independence.

The armed citizens who mustered in defense of their rights in 1775 displayed patriotism in its purest sense: They loved their country and liberties enough to defend them against the criminal aggression of the government ruling them. Understanding that the right to armed self-defense separates the citizen from the slave, they refused to be disarmed.

That act of righteous insurrection, like the independence struggle that followed, was an assertion of the most elemental right of free men ? the right to say ?no? to the government and compel it to honor that answer. That right should be celebrated today, and exercised much more frequently.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.