Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 4, 2012

A single mother from Friendswood, Texas was stopped by a police officer for failing to signal a lane change. The officer called for backup and conducted a search of the woman?s car that turned up a glass pipe and a bottle of Suboxone, a prescription anti-addiction medication she had been given to help her get off Vicodin following dental surgery.

The woman was arrested, strip-searched, and held for more than four hours. She had intended to be gone for fifteen minutes to buy dinner for her son, who had been left alone. The police blackmailed the woman ? who had a clean record ? into becoming an undercover drug snitch. The following day she made a controlled buy of a small amount of meth. When she tried to get out of the deal, the police escalated the blackmail by threatening to give her name to the drug dealer.

Police officers who work on traffic patrol are taught to ?build every stop? by finding probable cause to search the vehicle and the driver for contraband or cash. Because of the War on Drugs, each traffic stop offers police an opportunity to steal whatever cash they find, and blackmail the driver into becoming an informant.

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