Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 9, 2009

While Barack Obama?s conservative detractors are legion, his most acute critics include self-designated progressive commentators, one of whom has called for his resignation.

Commentator Ted Rall, is livid over Obama?s record on civil liberties, particularly his acceptance of the practice of ?Preventive detention.?

?Obama wants to let government goons snatch you, me and anyone else they deem annoying off the street,? complains Rall. ?Preventive detention is the classic defining characteristic of a military dictatorship?. It is amazing and incredible, after eight years of Bush's lawless behavior, to have to still have to explain these things. For that reason alone, Obama should resign.?

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone offers a similar protest, condemning liberals for indulging in a ?good king fantasy? regarding Obama while failing to see that he?s merely ?a smooth-talking shill? for the Power Elite who is amassing the powers of a dictator.

Unflinching honesty of this kind is welcome, commendable, and worthy of emulation.

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