Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 30, 2011

How fortunate we are as Americans not to live in a country in which silent dancing at a public shrine can be treated as a form of criminal blasphemy. In despotisms like Iran and Saudi Arabia we can expect to see heavily armed police body-slamming, choking, and otherwise brutalizing peaceful protesters whose only purported crime is to be seen in public silently swaying to music only they can hear.

Surely, this kind of thing could only happen in a benighted realm ruled by Sharia law ? a medieval theocracy governed by withered little tyrants perversely determined to wring the joy out of life, and make lesser people submit to their holy will.

Wait a second ? what I just described didn?t happen in Tehran or Riyadh, or the capital city of any other Islamic country. It happened last Saturday at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. After a federal court upheld a Park Service ban on dancing at the memorial, a flash mob gathered to stage a silent dance protest.
The crackdown by the Park Police displayed the propensity for overkill for which the Regime ruling us has become notorious.

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