Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 24, 2009

Detroit, once the showcase of America?s industrial prowess, is descending into a bottomless depression. Residents trying to surmount the collapse confront a new and vicious enemy: Police who are resorting to undisguised theft, in the form of asset forfeiture, to fill empty municipal coffers.

The Detroit News reports: "Local law enforcement agencies are raising millions of dollars by seizing private property suspected in crimes, but often without charges being filed -- and sometimes even when authorities admit no offense was committed."

Sgt. Dave Schreiner, who is in charge of Canton Township's forfeiture unit -- which is to say that he's the kingpin of that community's most notorious criminal gang -- is astonishingly candid: "You'll find that departments are doing more forfeitures than they used to because they've got to -- they're running out of money and they've got to find it somewhere."

The city government?s out of money, so the cops become robbers. What will they do when there?s nothing left to steal?

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