Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 4, 2010

The depraved Roman Emperor Caligula once took violent offense over a public expression of support for a political rival in the Senate. The infuriated tyrant confided to an associate that he wished the entire Roman population had a single neck.

The same sadistic sensibility inspired a short video entitled No Pressure, which was produced by the English environmental group 10:10. The organization?s goal is for everyone to reduce his so-called carbon footprint by ten percent in order to fight the supposed menace of global climate change.

No Pressure is composed of three vignettes in which groups of people ? schoolchildren, corporate employees, and a soccer team ? are invited by an authority figure to join the 10:10 crusade. Those who decline are asked to identify themselves. At this point the leader pushes a large red button and the holdouts are blown into a crimson mist.

According to 10:10, the ad was withdrawn because people didn?t get the joke. Their real problem is that people understood it perfectly.

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