Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 28, 2010

At the close of this or any other year we confront the unfortunate but vital task of assessing our society?s slide into undisguised totalitarianism. One suitable definition of that term is this: It is a condition in which any person can be deprived of physical liberty or be subjected to state-sanctioned violence at any time, entirely at the discretion of the state?s authorized agents of coercion.

By that definition, as economic analyst and attorney Michael Snyder grimly notes, we are already living under what could be called ?soft totalitarianism.?

It seems as if ?almost everything has become a crime in America now,? Snyder observes. ?Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly ? and having brown lawns.? This explains why America ? the supposed land of the free ? has the largest prison population in human history. Indeed, as Snyder laments, ?our entire nation is being turned into one gigantic prison.?

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