Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 26, 2012

Three years ago a property manager in New Brunswick, New Jersey discovered something unsettling during a state-mandated inspection of his apartment complex, which was located near the campus of Rutgers University.

The apartment was unfurnished except for two beds. No clothes were found, but the landlord saw software, New York Police Department radios, and disturbing photographs of local buildings and people the manager perceived to be terrorists. Fearing that his property had been used as a safe house for a terrorist cell, he called the police.

It turns out that the property was being used as a safe house ? by a unit of the NYPD acting well outside its jurisdiction in cooperation with the CIA. The apartment was used by undercover agents who were conducting warrantless ? and illegal ? surveillance on people who had done nothing to deserve the unwanted attention of police.

For more than a year, the NYPD fought a court battle to prevent publication of the 911 call made by the apartment manager, who was following the Homeland Security department?s ?If you see something, say something? admonition. In the East German-style surveillance society we?ve become, the suspicious people you report might well be assets of the secret police.

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