Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 5, 2010

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker is a politician, which means that everything he does is probably tainted with opportunism. Not long ago he promoted a civilian disarmament initiative in which residents would be paid $1000 apiece to snitch out gun owners.

Nevertheless, it?s appropriate to commend Booker for a completely unexpected gesture of genuine civic decency.

The Mayor, who is very active on Twitter, recently received a message from a prominent local constituent, whose elderly father was snowed in.

?Don?t worry about your dad,? the Mayor replied. ?Just talked to him and I?ll get to his driveway by noon. I?ve got salt, shovels, and great volunteers.?

The constituent contacted Booker again after the job was done: ?My daddy is a happy man! He took pictures of his mayor shoveling his driveway!?

In this instance, Mayor Booker actually earned the title ?public servant? by addressing a need without confiscating and redistributing wealth. If only this were the rule rather than the refreshing exception.

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