Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 12, 2012

During a recent campaign stop at an Ohiodiner, Vice President Joe Biden spied several members of a motorcycle club, one of whom was a woman several decades his junior. In a presumptuous act that might have earned him a beating had he not been accompanied by Secret Service agents, Biden seized the woman, placed her on his lap, and mugged for photographers.

During a separate campaign appearance in Florida, President Obama was the recipient of a photo-friendly bear hug from the owner of a pizza parlor. Prior to Mr. Obama?s appearance, the Secret Service had cleared the restaurant of any object that could be used as a weapon ? yet they were studiously indifferent when the president was seized and lifted from the ground by a man who outweighed him by at least eighty pounds.

The restaurant owner claims that the hug was a spontaneous gesture, an emotional reaction to the mere presence of Mr. Obama.

Most politicians aren?t fit for the company of decent people. Why do those of us who belong to society?s productive class insist on treating them as celebrities, and permitting them to use us as campaign props?

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