Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 14, 2011

In May 2009, the FBI contacted the office of Motors Insurance Corporation to share some good news, and some bad news. The former was that police had located a Ferrari that had been stolen six years earlier. Since Motors Insurance Corporation, which had paid a $625,000 claim, was now the owner of that expensive, high-performance automobile, this was very welcome news.

Shortly thereafter the bad news arrived: The car had been totaled in an accident. At the time of the crash, it was being driven by FBI Special Agent Frederick Kingston, who was giving a ride to Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson. When the insurance company asked for details, the so-called Justice Department did what it always does in such circumstances: It engaged in a cover-up.

Invited by the FBI to submit a claim for damages, the insurance company listed the market value of the car ? owing to inflation ? as about $750,000. The FBI denied the claim, asserting that because the vehicle had been ?detained? by law enforcement, the government could not be held liable. A federal court, predictably, has upheld that claim.

There?s nothing surprising here ? once it?s understood that theft and property destruction without consequence are the very purpose of political government.

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