Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 15, 2013

When 70-year-old pilot Robin Fleming went for an afternoon glider flight last July inSouth Carolina?sDarlingtonCounty, his colleagues at the glider club became concerned when he didn?t return as planned. After hours of imagining the worst, Fleming?s friends were relieved the following morning when the pilot contacted them ? and horrified anew when they learned what had happened.

While flying near the HB Robinson Nuclear Generating Station nearLakeRobinson, Fleming was ordered to land his glider, which he did as soon as prevailing wind currents permitted. Once he was down on the ground, Fleming was swarmed by law enforcement.

Fleming was informed that he had violated a secret no-fly zone. He was held and interrogated by FBI and Homeland Security officials. Charges were dismissed after he showed the investigators that the zone wasn?t marked in aviation charts ? but he was required to sign a document promising that he wouldn?t file a lawsuit against the officials who had illegally detained him.  He later learned that preparations had been made to shoot down his glider.

Fleming did nothing illegal ? yet he was brutalized by people who had been prepared to kill him, and could have done so without consequences. Such is life in ourHomelandSecurityState.

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