Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

September 27,2007

Pardoned by the Florida Clemency Board after more than three years in prison, Dr. Richard Paey was returned to his family on September 21. Confined to a wheelchair after an automobile accident and an inept surgery, and suffering from multiple sclerosis, Dr. Paey was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

His supposed offense was to obtain medicine of the proper kind, and in adequate volume, to deal with his chronic pain.

Following a paramilitary police raid on Paey's home, an abusive prosecutor blackmailed his doctor into testifying against the crippled man. No evidence was produced that Paey had distributed the painkillers to others, but under Florida law possession of more than 28 grams of painkiller is regarded as evidence of trafficking.

Significantly, Noelle Bush, daughter of then-Governor Jeb Bush, was convicted of the same charge and referred to drug treatment, rather than being sent to prison. Injustices of this variety are quite common in the malicious, murderous fraud called the war on drugs.

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