Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 17, 2009

Our British cousins across the Atlantic tragically tend to be about six months to a year ahead of the curve in terms of repudiating our shared legacy of liberty protected by law.

The March 14 London Daily Mail described a new and very troubling development in the UK, the creation of a massive new security database that would record all of the pertinent details of every trip abroad by British citizens, whether taken for business or pleasure.

Under this new ?e-borders? system, those seeking to travel abroad will have to submit, under penalty of criminal prosecution, detailed travel plans and huge amounts of personal information.

The freedom to travel was one of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Magna Carta. That freedom faces a mortal threat in Great Britain. How long will it be until it comes under similar assault here in the U.S.?

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