Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 19, 2012

The social artifact called the State is a mechanism of murder. This is a fact that we should remember every April 19.

On this date in 1993, the FBI slaughtered scores of people at the Mt. Carmel religious retreat outside Waco, Texas. This was the consummation of a 51-day siege that began with an unnecessary ? and illegal ? armed raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, an agency that exists without constitutional permission. That raid was carried out because of paperwork irregularities involving weapons purchases by David Koresh, the leader of a sect commonly called the Branch Davidians.

While Koresh?s theology was deranged and his conduct in some ways deplorable, he was not a criminal. He cooperated with the local Sheriff on many occasions, and was willing to work with the ATF. That agency preferred to stage a high-profile raid based on a defective search warrant. Four agents and several Branch Davidians were killed in that raid, setting the stage for the holocaust of April 19.

After the Davidians had repelled the illegal federal assault on their sanctuary, the Feds were determined to destroy them as an object lesson for the rest of us. In this atrocity we see the distilled essence of the government that rules us.

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