Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 1, 2010

An entrepreneur wanting to make business for himself offers a new product or service, or improves an existing one. This benefits both the businessman and his customers.

A bureaucrat wanting to make business for himself devises some way to intrude on the property rights of others. This enhances the job security of a handful of tax-fattened parasites while producing no public benefit.

One splendid illustration is offered by the seizure of 30 toy machine guns by the officially sanctioned criminal syndicate calld the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (or ATF).

According to ATF functionary Kelvin Crenshaw, the shipment of Airsoft BB guns from Taiwan was seized because they could be ?retrofitted? into machine guns. Oregon business owner Brad Martin, who paid for the merchandise stolen by the ATF, points out that this is a mechanical impossibility. Yet the ATF is determined to destroy the entire shipment.

It?s long past time the ATF was put out of business ? permanently.

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