Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 14, 2007

Ten-year-old John Shiflett of New Castle, Colorado, fell and hit his head while trying to grab the door of a moving car. His father Tom Shiflett, a former Army medic, knew how to care for his son's painful but trivial injury.

Local paramedics, who arrived at the Shiflett home uninvited, weren't satisfied; neither were the social workers who also paid an unwelcome visit. So those officials obtained a court order to seize the ten-year-old for treatment at a hospital. That order was enforced on January 4 by the county All-Hazards Response Team, a paramilitary unit funded by the Department of Homeland Security.

After being seized at gunpoint by armed, masked intruders, Jon was returned to his home. The doctors certified that he was getting adequate care from his father.

That raid ? in which the father was handcuffed and held at gunpoint along with several children ? was entirely unnecessary. But it did demonstrate how quickly the Nanny State can resort to Nazi tactics.

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