Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 20, 2009

Steven Anderson, a Baptist pastor from Phoenix , was headed home from San Diego on April 14 when he ran into a Border Patrol checkpoint 100 miles north of the Mexican border.

Despite the fact that he never committed a crime of any kind, he ended up being tasered numerous times, beaten, and having his face ground into the shattered remains of his car windows.

Anderson, a frequent traveler, once endured suspicion-less checkpoints with stoic frustration.

But he?s grown weary of being subjected to invasive searches conducted without warrants or probable cause. So he refused to permit a search of his car or to answer questions. He was detained for an hour before being assaulted by Border Patrol agents and state police.

Anderson has been charged with failure to obey an order from a police officer. His actual supposed crime was to insist that police respect his constitutional rights.

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