Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 21, 2009

The USA, once the world standard in individual liberty, is now leading the effort to build a comprehensive electronic police state.

In an electronic police state, observes the privacy activist group CryptoHippie, police officials use electronic technologies ?to record, organize, search and distribute forensic evidence against its citizens.? This ?is criminal evidence, ready for use in a trial ? gathered universally and silently[.]?

?Whoever holds that evidence can make you look very, very bad whenever they care ? to do so,? warns the watchdog group. ?You can be prosecuted whenever they feel like it ? the evidence is already in their database.?

Of the 52 nation-states surveyed, the top four electronic police states were Communist or ex-Communist countries: China, North Korea, Belarus, and Russia. Socialist Great Britain came next, followed by the United States of America.

Were we true to our ideals, the USA would proudly finish last on this list.

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