Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 26, 2011

For several horrible minutes, Tara Keener thought her 5-year-old son may have been dying. After depositing the Kindergarten-age child on a school bus, Tara heard several of the other students shouting that the youngster wasn?t moving, and that they couldn?t wake him up.

Tara did what any conscientious parent would do: She vaulted aboard the bus to check on her son?s condition. As an emergency room nurse, she was qualified to do so; as a mother, she had the right and duty to do so. Tara?s son, as it turns out, was merely sleeping ? and she may go to prison for a year, and be hit with a $2,500 fine, for a purported offense described as ?unlawfully boarding a school bus.?

Tara was initially told by the State Police that she wouldn?t be charged. But the Perry County District Attorney ? being a prosecutor, after all ? isn?t going to miss an opportunity to impose a punishment of some kind for an act no reasonable person ? and few unreasonable ones -- would construe as a crime.

Tell me again: In what sense is this a ?free? country?

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