Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 6, 2012

Diane Avera, a grandmother from Mississippi, faces a year in prison in Alabama for the supposed crime of buying a box of Sudafed. She was arrested in Demopolis, Alabama after a clerk at the local CVS pharmacy tipped off the police about her son?s purchase of Sudafed D.

Avera?s scuba instructor advised her to buy Sudafed to help with an ear condition. A pharmacy clerk suggested that Avera go across the state line to Alabama, where the medicine can be purchased over the counter.

Avera and two grandchildren went to the Demopolis CVS, where her son and his girlfriend each bought a box of Sudafed. They then went to Walmart, where Avera purchased another. As she pulled out of the parking lot, a police officer quickly intercepted her ? then used the crying children as hostages, threatening to call the Alabama State Department of Human Resources ?to pick up these kids.?

In order for the children to be released, Avera ?had to confess all the Sudafed was hers, thereby putting her over the legal limit in Alabama,? reported the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger.

After being arrested and left shackled to a metal chair for 17 hours, Avera signed a confession.

Once again: In what sense can this honestly be described as a free country?

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