Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 20, 2013

The public is taught to assume that police are trained protect the helpless. The truth is that they are trained to put ?officer safety? above every other consideration. This is illustrated by a line of firearms training targets for law enforcement personnel produced by Law Enforcement Targets, Inc., a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security.

The training targets include images of ?non-traditional threats? ? such as pregnant women, children, and the elderly.  The company claims that the targets are ?designed to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training.?

Putting police in environments of this kind, the company insists, can, ?help the transition for officers who are faced with these highly unusual targets for the first time.? That is, it can condition them to overcome the natural human reluctance to kill the innocent and helpless.

The Minnesota-based company?s promotional material boasts that it its customers include the Department of Homeland Security, the Departments of Justice and Treasury, and ?Thousands of law enforcement agencies at the municipal, county, and state levels.?  This means that the company has implicated itself in the escalating campaign of criminal violence by law enforcement agencies against innocent citizens.

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