Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

September 24, 2007

Deputy David B. Thompson of Oregon's Multnomah County Sheriff's Department finds some peculiar rewards in his work.

?Seeing someone get Tasered is second only to pulling the trigger,? wrote Deputy Thompson in a police-oriented Internet chat room. ?That is money ? puts a smile on your face.? On another occasion, Thompson boasted: ?I crushed a dude?s eye socket from repeatedly punching him in it and then I charged him with menacing and harassment [of me].?

The same streak of government-licensed sadism was on display at the University of Florida on September 17 when 21-year-old Andrew Meyer was manhandled by several police officers and then given a 50,000-volt Taser shock. Meyer's ?offense? was to take a little too long at the mike during a question period at a speech by John Kerry. Meyer was willing to leave, but he was Tazed anyway ? apparently because somebody wanted to experience the depraved thrill described by the unformed degenerate, Deputy David Thompson.

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