Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 5, 2010

Jim Peera of Montgomery, Alabama was one of thousands expelled from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin. Tragically, the municipal government has behaved in a lawless fashion that invites comparisons to Amin?s reign of terror.

Professor David Beito of the University of Alabama reports that Peera ?has fought a pitched battle with City Hall over his plan to renovate a strategic parcel of 121 apartments ? and rent them to low-income senior citizens. ? The city government, which covets that property for a multimillion-dollar development, is trying to seize it through condemnation.

Peera has been battered with spurious criminal charges, mysterious arson attacks, and efforts to ruin the property?s value through arbitrary zoning decisions. Each time he wins in court, city bureaucrats file endless expensive appeals.

Numerous property owners, many of them black, are having their rights trampled in Montgomery, the so-called cradle of the modern civil rights movement. The same atrocities are committed every day in this supposedly free country in the name of eminent domain.

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