Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 2, 2008

Imagine for just a second that you?re caught with more than $100 worth of groceries for which you?ve neglected to pay. It?s almost certain you would be arrested and prosecuted for shoplifting. But do you think you would enjoy the following treatment:

*The prosecutors decline to show surveillance tape of the incident, and don?t bother to offer opening or closing statements.

*The Judge says that he?s convinced with ?almost every fiber of my being? that you?re guilty ? but acquits you anyway.

That was the treatment Chicago resident Tracy Buckley received during her recent trial ? if that term applies.

Oh, did I mention that until recently, Miss Buckley worked as a high-ranking investigator for Mayor Daley?s inspector general, a job she lost and will most likely get back?

Buckley may have been completely innocent. But does anyone think that a common citizen would receive such indulgent treatment in this supposed nation of laws, rather than men?

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