Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 25, 2011

The so-called ?war on drugs? led to the amalgamation of the military and domestic law enforcement. Nearly every police agency in the country now has a SWAT team ? a specialized paramilitary unit armed and equipped by the federal government, and usually trained with the help of the Pentagon. This effectively destroys the critical constitutional principle forbidding the use of a standing military as a domestic police force.

The so-called ?war on terrorism? resulted in another deadly constitutional breach. Since 2002, the NYPD, working intimately with the CIA, has created its own miniaturized version of the agency.

As reported by the AP, NYPD Civilian Intelligence Chief David Cohen, a retired career CIA officer, has created a multi-layered intelligence and surveillance apparatus. The city is divided into 12 ethnic regions supervised by officers from a ?Demographic Unit.? That unit ?maps? the city for supposed hot spots of radicalism identified by street agents called ?rakers.? Potential informants are identified and pressured into working with the ?Terrorist Interdiction Unit.? The informants and their handlers are called ?mosque-crawlers.? The NYPD also deploys assets in eight foreign countries. In short, it has become a fully functional domestic satellite of the CIA ? no doubt the first of many more to come.

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