Link: http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/06/cheneys-revenge-coming-to-police.html

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 8, 2009

Last August, Niagara Falls County Judge Sara Sperrazza issued an order that Ryan Smith submit to a DNA test to see if he was involved in a pair of armed robberies. Smith gave the sample, but it was sent to the wrong lab and ruined.

A second order was issued without informing Smith?s defense attorney. Smith refused the second test. The DA?s office authorized police to use ?minimum force? to compel Smith to submit to the test. The police used a Taser to break down Smith?s resistance and secure the sample.

The defense challenged the legality of this act. Last week, Judge Sperrazza ruled that it is permissible to use a Taser to enforce a court order, as long as the device is not used maliciously.

There was no hurry to get the sample. Yet now we?re saddled with a precedent that could institutionalize Taser torture as a means of enforcing court orders and interrogating criminal suspects.

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