Come Fly the Servile Skies January 7, 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
January 7, 2010
John Locke observed that slavery consists of being subject to the ?arbitrary will of another man? ? something Americans can experience every time they check in at an airport.
Joan Rivers, an easily recognizable 76-year-old Jewish woman, makes a singularly unlikely terrorist. Yet she was recently kept off a flight because her Passport lists her by both her showbusiness and married names.
Three-year-old Josh Pitney received an early lesson in government power and individual servitude when his Play-Doh was confiscated by a TSA official at the New Orleans Airport. No regulation authorized the confiscation, yet a bureaucrat who can?t tell plastique from Play-Doh swiped the child?s favorite Christmas gift.
Veteran war correspondent Michael Yon was arrested, handcuffed, and interrogated in Seattle for refusing to tell a TSA screener how much money he makes. In his travels throughout Asia and the Arab world, Yon observes, ?No country has ever treated me so badly.?
Our economy and prestige are in steep decline, but the USA leads the world in airport harassment.
Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.