Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 17, 2011

In a society ruled by law, the purpose of peace officers is to help defend individuals threatened by force and fraud. In a policed society such as ours, law enforcement agents exist to exercise force on behalf of the state and to aid its efforts to profit through fraud.

Maryland?s Anne Arundel County Police Department offers a perfect example of how police agencies actually operate.

In 2009, that police department set up a fraudulent account for ?Linwood Payment Solutions? to process payments for online gambling. The funds were deposited directly into the federal government?s asset forfeiture fund. Earlier this year, the Feds seized the online domains and other assets of online gambling sites ? and smugly instructed Americans who had participated in online gambling, none of whom committed a prosecutable offense, to contact the websites if they wanted to get their funds back.

Those funds, of course, had already been stolen by the Feds. For its role in the heist, the Anne Arundel County Police Department netted a cut of nearly a half-million dollars, which will be used to fund the SWAT teams employed to carry out smash-and-grab invasions under the rubric of the ?War on Drugs.?

No other criminal racket can compete with the one called ?government.?

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