Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 19, 2011

A recent state Supreme Court decision in Indiana disposed of constitutional and statutory protections running back to the Magna Carta by holding that citizens have no right to resist unlawful invasions of their home and property by police. On the same day, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that police now have permission to invade homes without warrants if they claim that doing so is necessary in order to prevent destruction of evidence.

?Sneak and peek? raids by police ? searches conducted without the knowledge or consent of the targeted citizen ? are becoming commonplace.

Barack Obama has embraced and expanded his predecessor?s claim that the president has the authority to order the summary execution of a U.S. citizen designated an ?unlawful enemy combatant.? He has also involved the U.S. government in an open-ended, aggressive war in Libya without so much as involving Congress in that decision ? let alone obtaining the constitutionally mandatory declaration of war.

For years, Americans have lived under a system of soft totalitarianism. That despotism is beginning to harden as the government presuming to rule us overtly repudiates the few remaining restraints on its power.

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