Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 10, 2011

In the immediate aftermath of the horrific Safeway massacre in Tucson, Arizona ? which left federal Judge John Roll dead, and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded -- House Speaker John Boehner intoned that ?An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. Such acts of violence have no place in our society.?

FBI Director Robert Mueller framed the incident in a similar fashion, describing the shooting rampage as an attack on ?our way of life.?

This atrocity ended the lives of six irreplaceable human beings, one of them a nine-year-old girl. Boehner and Mueller are correct that criminal violence is an attack on our society and our way of life. It is to be hoped that those seeking to extract partisan advantage from this crime would recognize that criminal violence of this kind is committed daily, both here and abroad, by the government they seek to control. There is no place in civilized society for such behavior, whether or not it bears the imprimatur of the political class.

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