Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 13, 2009

It was shortly after midnight on November 8, 2008 when Dustin Almon of Kensington, New Hampshire noticed two people following him.

Almon finally withdrew a tiny pocketknife from his pants pocket, turned around, and, holding the knife at his side, demanded: ?Why are you following me??

One of the stakers, Anthony Cattabriga, yelled: ?Police!? He and his partner were undercover Liquor Enforcement officers trailing Almon as part of a training exercise. Almon eagerly cooperated with their demands ? only to be charged with ?criminal threatening.?

Cattabriga and his partner carried concealed handguns and Tasers. Almon was twenty feet away from them when he pulled his pocketknife, and he made no threatening moves. Yet Cattabriga insisted in court that ?I feared for my safety.? This was enough to convince Judge Sawako Gardner of Almon?s guilt.

Almon?s only offense was to protect himself against unidentified strangers ? and, perhaps, to expose the cowardice of police officers who had him outnumbered and out-gunned.

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