Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 11, 2010

On January 3, graduate student Haison Jiang dropped his girlfriend off at the Newark Airport. In the absence of a Transportation Security Administration guard, Jiang escorted his girlfriend to the boarding area.

The supposed security breach triggered a lockdown that left passengers stranded for up to six hours. Several days later Jiang was arrested at his home in Piscataway, interrogated for a few hours, then released. He has been charged with ?defiant trespass? and faces a $500 fine.

New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, displaying a disposition suitable to one of Mao?s Red Guards, is infuriated over the supposed leniency displayed toward Jiang, describing his act of escorting his girlfriend without government permission as ?a terrible deed.? Significantly, the TSA guard whose absence permitted Jiang?s supposed offense is likely to escape any kind of professional censure.

Jiang came to the U.S. from Communist China in 2004. It?s doubtful his new home is significantly freer than the country he left.

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