Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

September 5, 2007

When security guard Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious-looking backpack during the July 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he quickly ushered people away from it. Shortly thereafter, a bomb inside the backpack exploded, killing one person and wounding more than one hundred others.

Jewell was briefly hailed as a hero. Then an anonymous leak from law enforcement sources claimed that he was under suspicion for the terrorist bombing. For 88 days Jewell was followed relentlessly by FBI agents, stalked by reporters, and ridiculed by late-night comedians ? all of this without a molecule of evidence that he had done anything but save innocent lives.

After all but convicting Jewell in the press, the FBI quietly resolved the matter and moved on, leaving the hero's life in shambles. On August 29, Jewell died at age 44, a victim of heart disease ? most likely exacerbated by years of stress and frustration inflicted by the Feds and their allies in the prestige press.

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