Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 13, 2011

The Indiana State Supreme Court has just nullified the Fourth Amendment and the equivalent provision of that state?s constitution. In a 3-2 decision, the court has ruled that Indiana residents have no right to obstruct unlawful police incursions into their homes.

?We believe ? a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,? wrote Justice Steven David. ?We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest.?

The first claim is dishonest, the second disputable. What David calls ?modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence? is a prolonged exercise in writing that indispensable guarantee out of the Constitution.

When police commit criminal aggression by invading a home without a warrant, they are the party responsible for the needless escalation of violence. This is why the Constitution places unconditional, non-negotiable limits on police power ? limits that have now been effectively destroyed.

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