Criminalizing Accountability* March 26, 2008

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 26, 2008

Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Arizona?s Maricopa County, styles himself the ?World?s Toughest Sheriff.? Yet he fell apart when a journalist published his home address on the internet.
Arpaio launched a legal jihad that eventually led to the arrest of the editor and publisher of the magazine that carried the story, the Phoenix New Times.
Last year, Police Chief James Coan of Whitewater, Wisconsin assigned detectives to try to unmask an anonymous author who had criticized him on-line. Coan insists that his critic represents a ?potential threat.?
These aren?t isolated examples. The ?Court Security Improvement Act of 2007? would impose fines and federal prison sentences on those convicted of publishing personal information about federal law enforcement personnel -- if those personnel feel threatened or intimidated as a result.
Corrupt officials are always intimidated by the threat of exposure. That?s called ?accountability.? It is indispensable in a republic, and impermissible under a dictatorship. Which of those labels best fits our current system?
Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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