"Protecting" the Public From Plants -- By Invading Their Homes?

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 13, 2012

The Malheur County, Oregon Sheriff?s Department casually announced that it had found several small marijuana gardens during a two-week aerial surveillance operation conducted with the help of the National Guard.

Acting as the department?s official stenographer, the Argus Observer newspaper reported that Sheriff Brian Wolfe will now ?contact property owners and acquire search warrants if needed.? Warrants will not be necessary, Wolfe observed, if the property owners consent to the searches. The Sheriff pointed out that the plants may be part of legal medicinal marijuana operations, or could have been planted without the owner?s knowledge or consent.

At this point an actual journalist would have asked Wolfe why his office was conducting warrantless aerial searches of private property without probable cause. After all, the Sheriff has admitted that none of the property owners was a criminal suspect.

The Malheur County Sheriff?s Department spends part of each summer arresting marijuana plants. It often dispatches its SWAT team to barren locations in rural Oregon to clear out patches of marijuana.

Sheriff Wolfe insists this is necessary to ?protect the public,? which is more acutely threatened by the unconstitutional, paramilitary operations of his own department.

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

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