Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 3, 2009

Police from several departments swarmed Wethersfeld High School in Connecticut on March 26 to conduct a drug sweep. Every locker, classroom, and car was searched, without a warrant or probable cause.

A nearly identical exercise was carried out in Westfield High School in Massachusetts almost exactly a year ago. This patently unconstitutional exercise, explained a local news account, was intended ?to send the school district?s message that drugs will not be taken lightly.? Despite the use of tactics worthy of a gestapo raid, police failed to find any narcotics anywhere on or around the campus.

According to School Superintendent Michael Kohlhagen , ?This is just one step in the right direction, to ensure our students continue to learn and thrive in a drug free environment.?

A less self-congratulatory view would be that this sort of thing is designed to teach students to submit to totalitarian abuses of their individual liberties.

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