Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 27, 2008

Until recently, Katie Lewis, an 11-year-old from Clayton, California, and her 3-year-old sister Sabrina had maintained a street-corner stand to sell fruits, vegetables, and flowers grown on their family farm.

This little business, which operated for four hours each Saturday morning, attracted the attention of the local police, who told the girls they were operating an illegal commercial enterprise.

Clayton Mayor Gregg Manning insists that the Lewis family?s roadside vegetable stand is a threat that must be nipped in the bud:

?[W]ho is to say what else they have[?] Are they going to have eggs and chickens for sale next?? exclaimed the Mayor in a television interview. He went on to accuse the young entrepreneurs of being ?self-centered.? Of course, a business can?t succeed unless it provides something of value to others ? a fact not appreciated by petty bureaucrats of Manning?s ilk.

Manning?s contempt for honest commerce is typical of the tax-fattened parasites who call themselves public servants.

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