Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

January 31, 2008

British commentator Peter Hitchens, an unabashed patriot and unflinching enemy of the European Union, has had it with self-described ?Euro-skeptics.?

Such people, Hitchens notes, ?fritter away their energies on micro-complaints about the detailed operation of the EU ... while veering away from the issue of membership itself....?

That issue was effectively decided by the 1975 referendum on membership in the Common Market, the precursor to the EU. Only a tiny handful of people recognized ?we were being asked to give away our national independence and this was the most important issue.?

Opponents of the Common Market were widely derided as paranoid. However, Hitchens writes, ?the supposed crackpots of 1975 ... were actually quite right.?

Today, subtle but unmistakable moves are underway to amalgamate the US with Canada and Mexico as an EU-style North American Union. And those who warn of this prospect are derided as crackpots. We can't wait for that view to become respectable in order to act on it.

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