Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 23, 2012

One day after a lethal shooting rampage in Aurora, Colorado left twelve people dead and scores injured, another eruption of criminal violence left one dead and several others injured in Anaheim, California. The perpetrators of the second assault were officers from the Anaheim Police Department, who used rubber bullets, which are reliably lethal at close range, to disperse a spontaneous protest that coalesced after the "officer-involved shooting" of a young man in the neighborhood.

Cell phone video of the police assault shows a wall of officers firing at a group of unarmed and terrified civilians ? including several small children, who were shielded by a man who appeared to be their father. Another officer unleashed a police dog, which immediately attacked a stroller containing an infant. A bystander who interposed himself ? and was mauled by the dog for doing so ? probably saved the child's life.

Those acts, in which private citizens protected the innocent from criminal violence at the hands of the State's armed servants, were just as heroic as those of the three men in Aurora who died protecting their girlfriends during the shooting rampage.

 The Anaheim police rampage illustrates how quickly the State's armed enforcement caste can turn any neighborhood into an urban war zone.

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