Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

August 28, 2007

Not satisfied with eviscerating the Bill of Rights and destroying what remains of the Constitution, our rulers are determined to repeal every guarantee of individual rights wrested by the people from government since the Magna Carta was issued in 1215.

Habeas Corpus, which prohibits summary imprisonment on the whim of a ruler, was destroyed when Congress passed the Military Commissions Act. The Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful searches was for all purposes done away with through the so-called Protect America Act.

Now the regime is bent on abolishing the freedom to travel, an ancient right first secured in paragraphs 41 and 42 of the Magna Carta. When the Real ID Act goes into effect next May, Americans for the first time will be required to have a national ID card in order to board an airplane and perhaps even to travel cross-country by car.

Were they among us today, men like Jefferson and Madison would be mortified by such tyranny ? and disgusted by our complacency.

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