Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 27, 2011

A crew from a local moving company was helping Ross Taylor settle into his new home in Gilbert, Arizona when at least a dozen masked and heavily armed SWAT operators materialized on the doorstep and demanded entry.

The three employees from the moving company were handcuffed and detained for an hour while the police searched the home and interrogated Taylor.

There was marijuana in Taylor's home, but it wasn't contraband. Taylor is a card-carrying medical marijuana patient who is permitted to own up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana. The police raid followed a tip from the individual who had just installed Taylor?s satellite dish: Spying a small amount of pot in the home, the dutiful collectivist drone called the police.

Even if we embrace the wrong-headed assumption that drug prohibition is a defensible policy, Taylor did nothing illegal. Yet his home was besieged by a dozen heavily armed commandos in ski masks because he was in possession of a single ounce of legally obtained marijuana.

Many terms are suitable to describe a society in which this can happen. The word ?free? is not on that list.

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