Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 12, 2011

Two years ago, John Bujak, at the time chief prosecutor for Idaho?s Canyon County, ?instructed? police to ?target? people who are observed texting while driving, despite the fact that the state legislature had voted down a measure banning that behavior. A year later, despite the fact that the state legislature had not yet enacted the necessary legislation Bujak declared that he would prosecute juveniles found in possession of a product commonly called ?Spice? ? a form of incense sometimes called synthetic marijuana.

Referring to Bujak?s actions in September 2010, this commentator pointed out that the Idaho State Code makes a criminal of any public officer who ?arrests any person or detains him against his will? without lawful authority.  I also noted that John Bujak, under the terms of a bizarre service contract, profited from misdemeanor prosecutions and should be removed for official corruption.

As it happens, Bujak resigned a couple of weeks later. On December 13 of this year, Bujak was arrested and charged with embezzling more than $236,000 from canyon County through that corrupt contract.

Bujak?s zealousness to imprison others was just one facet of his contempt for the law. This made him a perfectly suitable specimen of the prosecutorial profession.

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