Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 18, 2008

According to media-anointed terrorism expert Neil Livingstone, ? flying isn?t a right, it?s a privilege.?

Livingstone?s description of the freedom to travel as a privilege came during a television interview examining the possibility that air travelers will soon be required to wear so-called safety bracelets.

In addition to tracking each individual traveler from check-in to baggage retrieval, each safety bracelet would be equipped to issue an incapacitating, Taser-like electric shock in the event the flight crew wishes to subdue the passenger.

A decade ago, it was all but unheard of for passengers to be assaulted by security personnel at airports. Now, one need do little more than cast a hostile glance at TSA screeners in order to be swarmed by police, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed. Ten years hence, it may be just as common for fliers to be tagged like cattle and shocked like lab rats.

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