Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 8, 2009

Our factories are shuttered and our assembly lines are unraveling, but the government ruling us continues to find new ways to manufacture crimes.

Today?s Opelika-Auburn News reports that twenty-five people in that region of Alabama were arrested on ?meth-related charges.? Of those arrested, only two were charged with either possessing or manufacturing methamphetamine; the others were arrested for what was described as ?unlawful possession of a precursor? ? that is, ?purchasing over the legal amount of pseudoephedrine.?

That is to say that these people were arrested for buying legal cold medicine. Jeffrey Tucker of the Ludwig von Mises Institute points out that ?Before 2005, you could by as many Sudafed packages as you did Big Mac sandwiches?. Now, your 30-allotment is nine grams,? which probably isn?t enough during cold and flu season. And the government-approved replacement is little better than a placebo.

Cold and flu seasons come and go, but the government afflicting us is an unremitting plague.

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