Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 16, 2011

U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill has never been burdened with respect for the Constitution.

Ten years ago, at the behest of a radical environmental group called the Western Watersheds Project (or WWP) that filed an endangered species claim, Winmill ordered northern Idaho resident Verl Jones to stop irrigating his hay fields, despite the fact that the 85-year-old rancher had a long-standing and federally recognized right to use water from Otter Creek. Winmill ordered Jones to sell off assets to pay WWP?s legal fees. His rulings were overturned by the 9^th Circuit Court ? but not before the stress of the case literally killed the elderly Verl Jones.

Winmill has now ordered Boise County to impose a tax increase ? in defiance of Idaho law ? in order to pay a multi-million dollar federal judgment involving a violation of the Fair Housing Act. In the event that the Idaho State Tax Commission objects to this illegal levy, Winmill declares, Boise County should ?seek a declarative judgment or other legal remedy? against the Commission for upholding the state law.

Though his preferred attire is a judicial robe rather than a ski mask, Lynn Winmill is an armed robber unsuitable for the company of civilized people.

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