Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 18, 2008

Jeremy Bentham, the 19th century British philosopher, devised a concept called the ?Panopticon? ? a prison structure in which the inmates were kept under constant covert surveillance.

The Bush administration has nearly completed a version of a national Panopticon in which all citizens would be treated like inmates of Bentham?s theoretical model prison.

Michael Chertoff, director of the Homeland Security Department, has approved a scheme in which his department will integrate spy satellites, signals intelligence, chemical detection assets, radar, and other technology into one all-encompassing domestic surveillance network.

Some of these assets, such as spy satellites, have traditionally been deployed against identified foreign enemies. Washington has now made it clear that it considers us to be its most important enemy. Other assets traditionally used for disaster response operations are now to be used in regimenting our population.

This demented administration is turning the former land of the free into an open-air prison camp.

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