Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 17, 2012

In the summer of 2011, a college libertarian activist in Pennsylvania named Stacy Litz was approached at a meeting by a man named Paul. Litz had stupidly started a retail narcotics business, and Paul thoughtfully introduced her to a friend who was interested in buying some drugs.

Paul was an informant, of course ? a drug offender trying to buy leniency by sending others to prison. His friend was an undercover police officer. After they had snared Miss Litz, she and her ex-boyfriend were pressed into service as informants as well.

Through text messaging, Litz and her ex-boyfriend arranged several drug buys with friends. One of them resulted in an early morning SWAT raid.

Litz has been charged with thirteen felonies. Three others are now facing a similar array of charges and the prospect of years in prison ? for conducting commerce in substances that are admittedly harmful, but doing so in a way that didn?t injure anybody but themselves.

Of all the stupid choices Litz made, the most immoral was to become a government informant, a role in which she helped facilitate drug offenses under government supervision.

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