Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 22, 2009

Roughly twenty state legislatures have enacted resolutions affirming their reserved powers under the Tenth Amendment. Montana has enacted a law exempting firearms made and sold within that state from federal firearms restrictions. Similar laws are being considered in Texas, Alaska, Tennessee, and Utah.

As Washington?s looters continue to pillage what remains of our earnings and wealth, some Americans might conclude that the Union as it presently exists is a political and economic suicide pact. There has been serious discussion of the merits of secession in states from Vermont to Texas.

Secession is neither treasonous nor subversive; it is America?s oldest and most honorable political tradition. In principle, secession is the political application of the right to free association.

The War for Independence was a war of secession from an empire whose rulers were determined to reduce Americans to vassalage. That empire was less corrupt and oppressive than the government ruling us today.

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