Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 11, 2011

With the support of a majority of City Commissioners, Mary Lee Cook, the 84-year-old Mayor of Oak Hill, Florida, recently fired the city?s six-member police force. This came several weeks after the police reportedly found a handful of ?scrawny? marijuana plants on the octogenarian?s property. No charges were filed against Mayor Cook, who insists that the plants were placed there by a political enemy in the police force seeking to damage her reputation. The dismissed police chief, incidentally, has a history of personal drug abuse

In Quartzsite, Arizona ? population 3,600 -- the Town Council has attempted to dismiss all but three members of its 14-man police force. In that case, the Council is at odds with the mayor, who has accused the Council of misappropriating funds. The officers facing dismissal have accused the police chief of abusing his authority in the service of a corrupt ruling clique on the Council, which has declared a state of emergency and now does business behind closed doors.

Episodes of this kind are erupting all across the United States and as bankrupt municipal governments degenerate into factional squabbles that may soon take on the nature of gang warfare.

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