Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 17, 2009

Embedded in the $797 billion pork-barrel measure that we?re told to call a ?stimulus package? can be found billions of dollars to expand the infrastructure of our emerging police state.

Billions are set aside for Justice Department?s ?Byrne Grant? program to create counter-narcotics task forces that include professional criminal informants and paramilitary strike teams. That combination frequently results in armed raids against innocent people.

The bill also includes $1 billion for the COPS program to hire and train local police. This has contributed significantly to the unconstitutional federalization of law enforcement.

While these amounts don?t seem impressive, every dollar increases forfeiture by police has become nothing less than brazen piracy. Federal subsidies will help this kind of corrupt opportunism to flourish.

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