Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 29, 2009

What is the purpose of having a Congress if that body insists on passing huge, imponderably complicated pieces of legislation that congressmen haven?t even had a chance to read?

Last week?s so-called climate change legislation is the most recent example. Like the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, and last?s years bank bailout, the climate change bill was passed amid theatrical warnings of impending doom if Congress failed to act.

And like those previous measures, nobody in Congress ? including the bill?s most impassioned supporters ? has read the entire measure. Hundreds of pages were added to it literally at the last minute. Enough is known about the so-called ?cap and trade? restrictions on purported greenhouse emissions to predict that the most recent bill will cause energy prices to skyrocket and unemployment to soar.

If Congress can?t be bothered to read the laws it passes, we really shouldn?t be required to obey them.

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