Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 30 2010

The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a measure criminalizing ?membership in an unauthorized militia or the Ku Klux Klan,? reports The Oklahoman newspaper.

?In Oklahoma, we have seen the damage done by militia fanatics,? declares Democratic state Rep. Mike Shelton, referring to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing.

Shelton neglected to mention that Timothy McVeigh, the disgruntled former federal employee executed for that crime, was never a member of a private militia. He was, however, a military veteran who learned his lethal skills during the orgy of state terrorism called the first Iraq War.

McVeigh?s un-indicted co-conspirators included several informant/provocateurs on the payroll of various federal agencies. Many of them were attached to a federally protected neo-Nazi gang called the Aryan Republican Army.

If Shelton seriously considers Timothy McVeigh the embodiment of the ?gang? threat, he would have to ban military recruiters from the Sooner State. A better idea would be to stop trying to use legislation to exploit ill-informed fears and score cheap political points.

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