Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 11, 2012

Everyone remembers September 11, 2001 as the day the Towers fell in lower Manhattan. Relatively few recognize that date as the day the laws fell silent as well.

Terrorists murdered thousands on that morning eleven years ago. In the intervening years the same government that failed to protect the victims has destroyed the remnant of our constitutional system, invoking that failure to justify every enhancement of its powers.

Eleven years later ? more than a year after the reported death of Osama bin Laden -- the U.S. remains at war in Afghanistan. U.S. personnel remain in Iraq, dealing with the residue of a war fought against a country that never attacked or threatened us in any way. Remote-controlled drone strikes by the CIA kill dozens of people each week in Yemen, Pakistan, and elsewhere, planting and nurturing the seeds from which future terrorist attacks will grow. And the government that failed to protect us eleven years ago now unabashedly treats all of us as if we were inmates of a prison society.

The people who presume to rule us have validated the warning contained in the ancient Roman maxim, ?In times of war, the laws fall silent.? They remain a far greater threat to us than any conceivable foreign enemy.

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