Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 2, 2012

The experience of Daniel Chong, a senior at the University of California-San Diego, tidily encapsulates nearly everything that is wrong with the murderous fraud called the ?War on Drugs.?

Chong was one of several people swept up in an April 21 narcotics raid by the Drug Enforcement Administration. After federal agents questioned Chong, he was told that he would be released. Instead he was thrown into a five-by-ten-foot detention cell, where he was held for five days without food, water, toilet facilities, or bedding.

The DEA?s story was that Chong was simply ?forgotten.? After several days, Chong -- worried he might die in captivity ? shattered his eyeglasses and used broken shards to carve the words ?Sorry, mother? into his arm.

Chong was not suspected of using or trafficking in drugs; one of his interrogators told him he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet during his imprisonment he found and used a small amount of a white, powdery substance that was found to be methamphetamine.

So the DEA imprisoned and tortured an innocent man ? and made a drug user out of him. This trifecta of incompetence, cruelty, and corruption is the War on Drugs in microcosm.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us