Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 18, 2012

Bernice, Oklahoma has a population of about 500 people. Unfortunately, some of them have given themselves the title of ?government,? thereby claiming permission to steal from the others ? and from anyone who happens to wander into their area of influence.

Bernice is bisected by Highway 85A. Although the village doesn?t have a stoplight, the speed limit suddenly drops from 55 to 45 miles per hour -- which means it has become one of the country?s most notorious speed traps.

State law limits speeding tickets to $50. For years, however, Bernice has charged as much as $545 for an individual ticket. An audit by the state government documented that over the past five years, it collected more than $300,000 in ticket revenue, kicking back about $5500 a month to deputies from a nearby sheriff?s department who were contracted to write the citations. On May 14, the town council passed a measure refusing to grant refunds to victims of the illegal ticket scheme, thereby laying claim to more than $100,000 in illegally collected revenue.

The same clique has ruled that local citizens have no right to participate in town council meetings.

Never forget: No government is too small to become an undisguised tyranny.

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