Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

July 28, 2011

Not long ago, it was common to hear of people "taking money out" of their homes. It was as if those houses were equipped with magic ATM consoles through which some portion of their inflated market value could be transmuted into cash.

Many houses of that sort have since been repossessed and are the property of banks. And now an increasing number of foreclosed houses aren't fit for resale because thieves have literally been taking money out of them by cannibalizing their copper plumbing and wiring.

A leading symptom of America?s economic collapse, notes Taki?s Magazine, is the ?unsavory assortment of human buzzards, scavengers, pack rats, hyenas, and scroungers ? who busily pick apart the remaining sinew and marrow from [America?s] bones?. All across this once-fair and now-mottled land, faded emblems of a vanished industrial base?manhole covers, oil tanks, steel beams, aluminum bleachers, fire-hydrant control valves, sewer grating, plumbing pipes, rusty stoves, and any public monuments that appear to contain copper?have been showing up at scrap yards and sold for a fraction of their value?.?

The Visigoths haven?t invaded, but the Vandals are already here. Such is the state of late imperial America.

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