Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 8, 2011

On March 5, thousands of demonstrators swarmed the Cairo-area offices of the Egyptian State Security Investigations agency.
?We are fetching documents and looking for detainees,? explained Mohammed Abdel-Fattah as the crowd chanted: ?The people want the end of state security!?

This was not an act of collective lawlessness; it was an uprising against a lawless state.

Something similar happened in a London-area court. Roughly 600 protesters executed a citizen?s arrest of a judge in a case involving a tax victim who challenged his assessment. The tax victim asked three times if the judge was serving under his oath of office; when the judge refused to reply, the protesters arrested him for contempt of court. He was rescued by police, but as protest leader Roger Hayes noted, the point had been made: ?The judges are breaking the law in their own courts.?

Our own Founding Rebels would understand why people from Cairo to London are in revolt against entrenched official corruption. They would be puzzled over our own torpid acquiescence to the same.

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