Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 31, 2009

Since 1980, the number of Americans behind bars has increased nearly five-fold. This is, in large measure, because of the federal government?s perverse insistence on criminalizing nearly every activity Congress can identify.

As Brian Walsh of the Heritage Foundation observes: ?Federal law ? now criminalizes entire categories of activities that the average person would never dream would land him in prison?. Moreover, under these new laws, the government can often secure a conviction without having to prove that the ? accused even intended to commit a bad act.?

Every effort has been made to accommodate the ambitions of social engineers and prosecutors who are ?bent on using government?s ? power to punish any activity they dislike.?

It is literally impossible for Americans to know all of the laws and regulations generated by the government, much less obey them. Our rulers want us to believe that what liberties we exercise we enjoy only through their grace and indulgence.

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