Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 12, 2011

Nassau County, New York is burdened with one of the most degenerate criminal justice systems in the country. The County Police Department?s crime lab has been shut down because of incurable corruption. Thousands of criminal convictions may be taintedbecause of perjury and evidence tampering on the part of crime lab officials.

Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice has announced that thousands of forensic samples from the lab will have to be re-tested at a cost of nearly a half-million dollars. The expenses will be paid out of the police department?s forfeiture funds.

When asked how much money was in the forfeiture slush funds, Rice refused to answer. The police department ? in a fashion typical of the risk-aversive plunderers who gravitate to that disreputable occupation ? insists that a public accounting of the forfeiture funds would put officers ?at risk.?

Asset forfeiture isn?t a substitute for taxation; it?s just another form of officially sanctioned theft ? and the thieves figure there?s no point in riling up the victims by describing the size of their haul.

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