Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 30, 2008

At first glance, the novelty t-shirt seems to be a calculated insult to the Denver police.

Produced in commemoration of the recent Democratic National Convention in Denver, the shirt depicts a huge, snarling caricature of a club-wielding riot policeman rising ominously above the city skyline. The inscription reads: ?We get up early to BEAT the crowds ? 2008 DNC.?

Had this t-shirt been created and marketed by a group critical of the police, the local police union would publicly condemn it as an unjust smear of the men of the Thin Blue Line. But the police union can?t honestly make that complaint, since the t-shirt is its own creation. The union gave one to every member of the police department, and expects to sell at least 2,000 at ten dollars apiece.

There were incidents of unprovoked police brutality during the DNC. What does it say that the police saw this as a cause for celebration?

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