Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 23, 2009

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security distributed a nine-page security assessment of ?right-wing extremism? to law enforcement bodies nation-wide. The document was prepared by the department?s Extremism and Radicalization Branch, which monitors the political affiliations and opinions of US citizens.

Most people assume that the term ?right-wing extremist? applies to such people as neo-Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan.

As described in the Department of Homeland Security advisory, however, the term applies to law-abiding people who support the right to life for the unborn, the right to keep and bear arms, radical reduction in the size of the federal government, and other causes not popular to the tax-devouring class. Another department-approved definition includes those ?suspicious of ? federal authority? and who display ?reverence for individual liberties?!

The times are ominous indeed when conventional patriotic attitudes are seen as symptoms of terrorist inclinations.

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