Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 25, 2011

It was 7:00 a.m. when the SWAT team arrived at the San Jose home of Joann Rice. When her daughter answered the door, the police told her they were pursuing an armed fugitive. The young lady told the officers that the suspect wasn?t there, and that they could come in and see for themselves.

Instead of acting on that invitation, the police seized the young lady and took her to jail. They then unloaded several rounds of tear gas into the house, leaving it with shattered windows, perforated walls, and a dense, suffocating chemical mist. The residue of the tear gas attack is now infused into the carpets and the furniture. After failing to find the fugitive following a siege that lasted several hours, the police eventually lost interest in the home and drove off without offering to help ? or providing so much as an apology.

Americans can ? or at least should ? be outraged by the treatment inflicted on this innocent homeowner. Here?s something else to think about: What was done to Joanne Rice of San Jose, California is a microcosm of what the U.S. government did to the innocent people of Iraq.

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