Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 1, 2012

Last September, Willie Gandara, Jr., a County Commissioner  in Texas? El Paso County, assailed what he called ?wolves in sheep?s clothing? who opposed the war on drugs. Such people, Gandara told the El Paso Times, are acting on an ?ulterior motive.?

Legalizing drugs, insisted Commissioner Gandara, is a coward?s approach to a social problem, as well as ?an insult to our men and women in law enforcement, and the laziest form of parenting our children and youth about the effects of drugs."

Gandara directed those remarks at aspiring congressional candidate Beto O'Rourke, who has advocated legalization of marijuana as a way of reducing the profits accumulated by Mexican drug cartels. The cartels have benefited enormously from drug prohibition, which amounts to a huge price support program for some of the most vicious criminal personalities in human history.

In late February, Mr. Gandara was arrested as part of a multi-jurisdictional investigation into drug trafficking.

The five-count federal indictment accuses Gandara ? referred to in the document by the pseudonym ?Godfather? -- of possessing 110 pounds of marijuana and operating a so-called ?stash house? for drug traffickers.

If the charges against Gandara are true, it?s likely that his attacks on drug war critics were inspired by a desire to preserve his illicit profits.

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