Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 28, 2013

Jason Ellis of Bardstown, Kentucky was murdered in the early morning hours of May 25. He was a K-9 officer with the local police department. Of infinitely greater importance, this young man was a husband and father to two young sons.

In reacting to the murder of Jason Ellis, Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin spoke of revenge, rather than justice:

?I can assure you we won?t give up on this person or persons until we either have them in custody or in the front sight of one of our weapons. I certainly hope the latter is the case.?

Had an intemperate remark of that kind been made by a Bardstown resident about an apparently unjustified killing of a citizen by a police officer, it would most likely have been treated as a terroristic threat.

Dominic Aguilar of Roseville, California, whose friend Ernesto Duenez, Jr. was gunned down in his front yard by a police officer named John Moody, was arrested and charged with a felony for a Facebook post expressing the hope that Moody would meet a violent end.

Aguilar?s post was ill-considered. McCubbin?s comment was a plausible threat to commit a summary execution. Why was the former considered a crime, but not the latter?

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