Police as Subsidy Junkies March 18, 2008

by Will

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

March 18, 2008

A nation-wide narcotics crack-down entitled ?Operation Byrne Blitz? took place on March 8. Police across the country seized millions of dollars, thousands of pounds of contraband, and hundreds of suspects.

This wasn?t so much a law enforcement operation as a lobbying campaign conducted at gunpoint. Police agencies carried out the drug busts in the hope that Congress would restore funding cut from the federal Bryne Grant program, which subsidizes counter-narcotics task forces.

In the original constitutional design, law enforcement was to be almost entirely a state concern. Federal law enforcement subsidies are a crime against our Constitution. They usurp local control over police and pervert the priorities of law enforcement bodies.

In addition to providing a splendid example of those perverse priorities, ?Operation Byrne Blitz? offered yet another illustration of the patent phoniness of the war on drugs. After all, if periodic high-profile arrests are indispensable to continued funding, why would police want to put drug peddlers out of business permanently?

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

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