Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 7, 2012

Organizers of the sixth annual ?Border Security Expo? in Phoenix have a very simple pitch for police state profiteers: ?The U.S. Senate has passed a $4 billion increase in Homeland Security spending ? are you securing your share of this market??

The expo is a totalitarian trade show designed to wed tax-subsidized corporate contractors with tax-devouring bureaucrats from across the United States.

Among the gear on display at the event are surveillance cameras and radar systems that can spot a person or vehicle at a distance of eight miles, a large assortment of surveillance drones, and patrol vehicles ?equipped with attack gear like .50-caliber machine guns.?

Motorola proudly unveiled the ?Smart Car? ? a computerized police vehicle that ?responds to verbal commands and uses cameras to capture license plate numbers and run them automatically.? This Gestapomobile would act as a passive surveillance probe for an all-encompassing system of surveillance in which everybody within sensor range would be scrutinized as a criminal suspect.

The focus of this event, as reporter Ryan O?Donnell summarized, is ?not border security, but police security? ? that is, providing for the safety and security of the people who regiment the rest of us on behalf of the political class.

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