Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

August 14, 2007

Many Americans might consider Edith Williams to be paranoid. Because of strange noises and an odd echo heard whenever she talks with her sister, the 80-year-old Denver resident is convinced that her phones have been tapped.

Neither her long-distance carrier nor her brother, a retired police chief, can find evidence of tampering.

Still, Edith is uneasy, for two reasons. The first is that in 2003 she sent President Bush a series of stern but polite e-mails urging him not to attack Iraq; she believes this marked her as a dissident. Her second cause for concern is the fact that she immigrated to the US from Germany in 1951, and current Homeland Security policies are stirring uncomfortable memories of how the Nazis consolidated power in the country of her birth.

Edith Williams may be paranoid, but that doesn't mean she has nothing to worry about. Given her background, Edith's sense of where our country is headed is worthy of our attention.

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