Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

August 30, 2007

If Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick had run a network of abortion mills, rather than a dogfighting operation, he would probably have qualified for federal subsidies, rather than federal prosecution.

Thus observes Dr. William Anderson of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, who peels away the layers of sensationalism from the Vick dogfighting scandal to reveal the real issue: ?[W]e are seeing another sorry chapter in the saga of abuses by federal criminal authorities.?

Vick offered a guilty plea because the Feds threatened him with a RICO prosecution. The government wouldn't have to prove Vick actually committed a criminal act, but rather that he had been associated with a criminal enterprise.

Among the genuinely horrible things Vick allegedly did was to kill dogs that didn't perform well. Yet the federal government has announced plans to euthanize more than 50 Pitbulls seized from Vick. Apparently, what was a crime when done by Vick to his own property magically becomes a compassionate act when carried out by the regime.

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