Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 21, 2011

Hampton, Virginia resident William Cooper, a 69-year-old NASA retiree afflicted with cataracts, had slept late on June 18, as he did most Saturday mornings. Startled awake by two armed intruders, Cooper grabbed a gun on his nightstand and reportedly opened fire.

The invaders returned fire, killing him. Their ringleader insists that this was an act of ?justified self-defense? even though they had forced their way into the home.

The assailants, of course, were police officers. They were carrying out a search warrant based on an unsupported allegation from an anonymous informant that Cooper was illegally selling painkillers from his home. Police refused to say whether illicit drugs were found in the home, which almost always means that no evidence of a crime was found.

Were we living in a constitutional republic, rather than a degenerate garrison state, potentially lethal police raids would not be launched on the word of a single accuser. They wouldn?t be permitted to force open doors, with guns drawn, to carry out search warrants. They wouldn?t provoke gunplay that endangers entire neighborhoods. And they wouldn?t be enforcing illegitimate drug laws in the first place.

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