Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

October 3, 2007

Former Texas prosecutor Robert Guest urges people to stop consenting to police searches of their vehicles. A police officer who asks to search your car, he warns, ?is telling you that he wants to arrest you. He just has not found or planted a reason to arrest you yet.?

This is particularly true of sobriety checkpoints. Remember, Guest warns, that ?police ask you to perform field sobriety tests so they can arrest and convict you, not because they want to help you.?

Ohio resident Jerry Seabrook can attest to the truth of that warning. Last June he was given a ticket ? dismissed after considerable legal expenses -- for driving under the influence despite a Breathalyzer test showing his blood alcohol was well below the legal limit. His mistake was to admit to the officer that he had a couple of drinks several hours earlier.

Our duty to obey the law doesn't require that we trust the police.

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