Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 6, 2011

Jacob Miller, a 25-year-old resident of Pacific Grove, California, was arrested on narcotics charges on June 28. Miller lived in an apartment above his mother?s home.

When the narcotics team from the Monterey County Sheriff?s Office arrived, they were disguised as employees of the Pacific Gas and Electric utility. As the raiding party climbed the stairs, his mother received a phone call from her husband, Scott Miller. As it happens, Mr. Miller is the County Sheriff. He had been informed about the raid by Chuck Monarque, the commander of the county narcotics enforcement team.

Sheriff Miller later explained that he made the phone call ?so that if she heard them breaking in the door, she wouldn?t have a heart attack.?

Jacob Miller, once again, was arrested and charged. Yet Sheriff Miller has been accused of obstruction of justice ? presumably because he spoiled the surprise planned by the raiding party, which could have resulted in potentially fatal consequences for his wife if she had confronted them.

The scandal isn?t that Miller warned his wife; it?s that thousands of innocent people have been needlessly harmed ? or killed -- in gratuitous no-knock raids because they didn?t get a similar warning.

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