Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 19, 2011

The foundation of the Soviet legal system was the assumption that anything not explicitly permitted by the government was illegal. The chief enforcement agent of the Soviet police system was the citizen informant, someone eager to report his neighbors or family members at the first sign of non-conformity.

The case of Adam Guerrero, a math teacher and urban homesteader from Memphis, Tennessee, illustrates how thoroughly Sovietized America?s legal system has become.

Adam, along with three of his students, maintains an extensive garden in his front yard, as well as a backyard worm farm and equipment for making soap and producing biodiesel. The property is tidy and well-organized. Yet a single anonymous complaint from a neighbor was sufficient to send Guerrero before Shelby County Environmental Court Judge Larry Potter.

The Judge told Guerrero that anything that generates a complaint is considered a ?nuisance? under city ordinances and ordered him to remove any of his property considered "unsightly" or a "nuisance.?

As Karl Marx wrote in his Manifesto: ?The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.? That theory is put into practice every day in this supposed Land of the Free.

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