Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 7 2009

Jefferson County, Alabama is headed for bankruptcy. The County Sheriff?s budget has been slashed by $4 million. Sheriff Mike Hale, who may have to lay off his deputies, has requested that Gov. Bob Riley dispatch National Guard troops to Jefferson County to provide a ?presence on the street.?

Earlier this year, Mayor Brian Stratton of Schenectady, New York suggested that martial law enforced by National Guard troops might be a ?necessary but temporary interim measure? as that city cleans up a notoriously corrupt local police force.

In Detroit, a dying automobile industry helped bring on the housing collapse early. With local unemployment soaring above 16% and the local economy in ruins, much of the local population faces food shortages. A recent CNN story from Detroit described a spectacle many thought we?d never witness in America: Food deliveries being guarded by men in military fatigues.

These are troubling snapshots of a society careening into undisguised military rule.

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