Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 6, 2010

As we?ve recently observed, an unprecedented number of Americans living abroad are being driven to repudiate their U.S. citizenship because of double taxation.

Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman has proposed a new measure that would strip U.S. citizenship from any American suspected of association with an organization designated a terrorist group by the State Department.

Involuntary expatriation would be done through an administrative process. It wouldn?t require a criminal conviction, indictment, or even a formal charge. According to Lieberman, it would be necessary only to show an ?association? between a citizen and a designated terrorist group. The State Department could employ secret evidence against the subject, and suppress exculpatory evidence on ?national security? grounds.

The objective is to make it possible to deprive U.S. citizens of due process guarantees and make them subject to trial by military tribunals. Arbitrary, extra-judicial revocation of citizenship is a critical element of a Soviet-style system of institutionalized injustice.

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