Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 11, 2009

Last week I referred to Ashton Lundeby, a 16-year-old from North Carolina who was arrested and held, under the PATRIOT act, on suspicion of making bomb threats.

The federal prosecutor heading the case has now denied that the PATRIOT act played a role in the matter. I regret my error.

It must be pointed out that the original account of the Lundeby incident was similar to documented cases of federal overreaching.

Last year, a teenager from South Carolina who planned to make a small, crude bomb was charged with attempting to build a weapon of mass destruction. Two years ago, a prosecutor in Arizona filed a terrorism charge against a 14-year-old who pulled a penknife on a classmate.

Earlier this year, a mother who disrupted a commercial flight by swatting her children was arrested and held -- under PATRIOT act-related charges ? for two months before signing a plea bargain.
Whatever happened to proportionality?

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