Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 23, 2010

People who reside in and around San Antonio have been warned that another ?Warrant Roundup? has been scheduled for early March. Police will fan out to execute some 300,000 outstanding warrants, most of them for unpaid speeding tickets and similar infractions.

A large number of people threatened with arrest and imprisonment, however, are the subject of code compliance violations involving the use of their own property without government permission. Among the so-called scofflaws targeted for abduction at gunpoint by police are people who held supposedly illegal garage sales, stored non-operational vehicles on their property, or let their grass grow higher than code enforcement busybodies would allow.

According to Code Compliance Director David Garza, such trivial violations of the city government?s presumptuous regulations ?are just as important as anything else? covered by arrest warrants, despite the fact that they have nothing to do with offenses against persons or property. Shakedowns of this kind will grow much more common nation-wide as sales and property tax revenues dry up.

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