Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

October 10, 2007

On October 5, Virginia's Fort Hunt hosted a reunion of about two dozen veterans of a top-secret World War II project to interrogate captured Nazi officers.

According to a Washington Post account, ?many of [these] proud men lamented the chasm between the way they conducted interrogations during the war and harsh measures used today in questioning terrorism suspects.?

In fact, many of the means now used ? sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, and various forms of physical abuse ? were used by the Nazi Gestapo. And the Nazi regime used the same euphemism employed by the Bush administration to describe this officially sanctioned torture -- ?enhanced interrogation techniques.?

Of his methods in dealing with the Nazis, 87-year-old George Frenkel recalled: ?I never laid hands on anyone. We extracted information in a battle of wits. I'm proud to say I never compromised my humanity.?

By institutionalizing torture, the Bush administration has nullified the moral victory won by Frenkel and his colleagues.

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