Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 10, 2010

In the mid-1960s, the government ruling us declared war on poverty. Today, after a trillion dollars has been spent, we have a self-replicating welfare underclass.

In the early 1970s, that same government declared a war on drugs that has devoured another trillion dollars. The result was the militarization of law enforcement, immense damage to the Bill of Rights, and no discernible improvement in rate of drug addiction.

Less than a decade ago, that same government declared war on terrorism ?a campaign that includes the military occupation of two countries and military action in several others. Yet another trillion dollars has been consumed, unaccountable power has been claimed by the executive branch, and the Bill of Rights is, for all intents, a dead letter ? yet we?re constantly told that the peril has not abated.

The same government that presided over those failures has now declared war on childhood obesity. Given that government?s track record we should expect that a decade hence, all Americans will be bankrupt, totally enslaved, and morbidly obese.

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