Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

February 1, 2008

Last July, Dibor Roberts, a 47-year-old nurse from Sedona, Arizona, was driving home on a deserted rural road when what appeared to be a police car pulled behind her with running lights flashing.

Worried about being waylaid in a desolate area by a criminal posing as a cop, Roberts slowed down but didn't stop, looking for a well-lighted place. She also took out her cell phone to call the local police. This is the conduct recommended by many police departments in such circumstances.

However, Deputy Jeff Neunum forced Roberts off the road, shattered her car window, seized her cellphone, threw her to the ground and cuffed her behind the back. Roberts was charged with unlawfully fleeing a police officer ? despite the fact that she had slowed down ? and resisting arrest, both felonies. She was in jail for six days.

Sheriff Steven Waugh insists that the Deputy's needless violence was ?by the book.? Which makes perfect sense, assuming that the book in question is Mein Kampf.

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