Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 22, 2012

Frank Roder of Winfield Park, New Jersey took his soon to a nearby river to feed the ducks. The SUV came to a stop on a steep embankment, and Roder?s impatient 5-year-old son jumped out and started sprinting toward a ledge that was about 35 feet above the river.

Roder immediately leapt out of the SUV and chased down his son just a few feet from the edge. If he had taken so much as a second to set the parking brake, his son almost certainly would have plunged to his death. Instead, his Jeep Cherokee went tumbling over the edge and embedded itself in the river.

When police arrived, Roder was given two tickets ? one for failure to produce his insurance card, which was in the glove compartment of his ruined vehicle, and another for failure to set his parking brake.

The officious jerk who wrote the tickets chastised Roder for not setting the brake. He also said that if Roder?s child had fallen into the river instead of the Jeep, Roder would have been arrested for child endangerment.

Never forget: There is no bad situation that cannot be made instantly worse through police intervention.

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